Eric Berger

In brief: In this afternoon’s update we discuss the region’s diminishing heavy rainfall threat even though a Tropical Storm is likely for form off the Texas coast on Wednesday. We also …

15 pts Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company's low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. "They're built, and sitting in a payload processing facility waiting for trips to orbit," said Steve Metayer, vice president of…

A proposed $8bn renovation of the hub has critics wondering if it’s another example of the US president bolstering his legacy at taxpayers’ expense

“We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs.”

12 pts Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the surface. As part of this, officials said work would be paused on the Lunar Gateway planned to orbit the Moon. Of the…

In brief: We talk about why, when Arthur’s center was closest to Houston on Wednesday evening, its winds died off. Also, we look ahead to calmer and hotter conditions for the next couple of d…

In brief: We are issuing a Stage 1 flood alert for Saturday due to the possibility of slow moving storms capable of producing rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. Activity should wane this eve…

In brief: After a wetter and cooler start to summer major changes are coming to Houston’s weather. Also, our days are now getting shorter! Sunday, the summer transition day Sunday marked the …

I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."

SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.