William DeRoccoAugust 2026
Could planets wandering between the stars harbour life?
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
I spoke with Keith Cooper about how planets lose their stars, what might keep a rogue planet warm, and the odds of one passing close to Earth.
In the press
Media
A selection of interviews, articles, and videos covering my research.
January 2026
Has Proof of Dark Matter Been Hiding on Ganymede?
SciShow
Host Jaida Elcock explains my proposal to search the icy surface of Jupiter’s largest moon for evidence of a collision with a clump of dark matter.
August 2025
A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector
Gizmodo
Gayoung Lee covered my work on the traces that a dark matter impact might leave in Ganymede’s ice, and how upcoming missions could look for them.
May 2024
How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
NASA
NASA covered our study of how Roman could use the brief brightening of distant stars to search for Earth-mass black holes. I discussed what such a discovery would mean for particle physics.
April 2024
NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter may have spotted its 1st rogue planet
Space.com
Michelle Kunimoto and I spoke with Robert Lea about a brief brightening in the TESS data and why a rogue planet was one possible explanation.
February 2024
Pushing the boundary on ultralow frequency gravitational waves
University of Florida
University of Florida News covered a method Jeff Dror and I developed to use pulsars to search for gravitational waves that take centuries to complete a single cycle.