Sam Matthews

Executive Producer, Yahoo News

Sam Matthews is the executive producer for Yahoo News. Before joining Yahoo News in 2017, he produced series for ABC, Travel Channel, and VICE, among others.

Yahoo News
Senators warn NASA against going 'woke' — Inside the best space stories of the week
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so. This week we’ve got “woke” NASA, good news for fans of the aurora borealis and bad news for anyone with a Milky Way galaxy tattoo.
8d ago
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How big is a 'supermassive' black hole? Inside the best space stories of the week.
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
21d ago
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NASA is getting into the rideshare business — here’s what you missed this week in outer space
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so. This week, we’ve got a Swedish spaceflight gone awry, a springtime spacewalk, NASA’s big day on Capitol Hill and a special bonus round of the best space news from our partners.
a month ago
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What happens when we find aliens? The Pentagon has a plan — and more space stories you may have missed
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
a month ago
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Should space be considered ‘critical infrastructure’?
Read our exclusive one-on-one interview with Space Foundation CEO Tom Zelibor as he prepares to host the largest space industry gathering in history.
a month ago
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Yikes, some Starlink satellites are falling out of orbit — and more of the latest space news you may have missed
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
2 months ago
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Americans want to lead in space but don’t love the price tag — and more space news you may have missed
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
2 months ago
Yahoo News
NASA’s new spacesuits, Elon Musk wants to build a town for SpaceX and 3 other space stories you may have missed
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
2 months ago
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What $27.2 billion buys NASA — and more space stories you may have missed this week
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
3 months ago
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Why the moon could have its own time zone — and 4 more space stories you may have missed this week
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
3 months ago
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U.S. and Russia come together on ISS 'rescue' mission — and 4 more space stories you may have missed this week
Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so.
3 months ago
Yahoo News
Let’s talk about UFOs — and 3 other space stories you may have missed this week
This Week in Outer Space covers UFO mania, black holes, a meteor over France, and a partially solved space laser mystery.
3 months ago
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The sun just did something weird, and 3 other space stories you may have missed this week
An oddball new exoplanet, small but significant steps toward the future of spaceflight, and a mystery in the Kuiper Belt. Space is very big and quite often, very weird. Here’s what you may have missed this week.
4 months ago
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Jupiter has too many moons and there’s a bear on Mars: This Week in Outer Space
They say space is the place — and there’s a whole lot going on out there. Here’s what you may have missed this week in outer space.
4 months ago
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Can Americans fight for Ukraine? Prisoners of war and the laws that protect them explained
The Kremlin announced this week that the Geneva Conventions, created to protect soldiers detained during wartime, do not apply to two American volunteers who were captured by Russian forces.
a year ago
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What you need to know about the Jan. 6 hearings
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first primetime hearing on Thursday night — the first of a series of hearings stemming from its 11-month probe of the events surrounding the deadly riot.
a year ago
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Self-described 'pro-life feminist': 'We're not ready to overturn Roe'
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, founder of the anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists, says the U.S. is not equipped to roll back its abortion laws.
a year ago
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Photojournalist describes what Russia left behind in Bucha: 'It's apocalyptic'
Photojournalist Carol Guzy, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has documented the humanitarian toll of some of the world’s most horrific wars and natural disasters, discusses her experience of photographing the carnage in Ukraine.
a year ago
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Could the Russian invasion spark a Ukrainian insurgence?
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds into its sixth week, experts and Western intelligence agencies are continuing to sketch out potential endgames for the conflict.
a year ago
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What is a war crime? Yahoo News Explains
“Even in war there are rules,” say the International Committees of the Red Cross and Red Crescent — and there is mounting evidence that those rules are routinely being broken in Ukraine. But where is the line between acceptable collateral damage and a war crime?
a year ago