Eric Berger

Eric Berger (born April 19, 1973) is an American journalist and meteorologist who is the senior space editor at Ars Technica and the editor of Space City Weather, a website covering weather in Houston.

Early life, education, and family Berger, who was raised in Michigan, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in astronomy. Berger then attended graduate school at the University of Missouri where he received a master's degree in journalism. In 2014, Berger completed a distance learning program at Mississippi State University to become a certified meteorologist. In 2005, he launched a science and technology blog on the Houston Chronicle website called SciGuy, which focused primarily on chemistry, physics, and astronomy. Berger also began writing about weather during his time at the Chronicle.

After leaving the Houston Chronicle and joining Ars Technica, Berger also started the Space City Weather blog in October 2015. The blog's readership increased drastically during Hurricane Harvey, with over one million visits to the site on August 27, 2017. The book chronicles the early history of SpaceX and the protracted development program of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle. He released a sequel in 2024, Reentry, that details the rise of the company through the first Falcon 9 launch, the development of the Dragon capsule, the inaugural Falcon Heavy launch, and the company's first human spaceflight.