HOUSTON — It’s been sitting idle since 2009, and on Wednesday, we got a look at what the Astrodome Conservancy wants to do with the iconic venue next to NRG Stadium. The Astrodome Conversancy released ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astrodome has been in limbo, waiting for its chance at a second life since being shuttered more than 15 years ago. It was a technological marvel when it opened in 1965. But ...

HOUSTON - I have walked into the Astrodome many times in my life, around 300 times…but never this way. On Friday, April 6, I entered the dome alone through the enormous opening in center field. Kind ...

The county-owned Astrodome opened in 1965 but has been closed to all events since 2009. Over the weekend, several videos were posted to social media platforms showing what appeared to be several ...

The application was completed by the Heritage Society Program Director Mike Vance and Mike Acosta, the Houston Astros' team historian. The two are longtime researchers of sports history and have ...

For more than two decades, Houston’s iconic Astrodome has stood silent, closed to the public. In 2013, calls for demolition prompted the National Trust for Historic Preservation to engage, naming it ...

The strange thing about the Astrodome is that the longer the behemoth sits unused, the more it becomes a vessel for our dreams of the future. Over the decades, Houstonians have proposed new and ...

Crowned the “eighth wonder of the world” upon its establishment in 1965, Houston’s mighty Astrodome now stands as a relic of middling architecture, a vast, nine-acre sign of the apocalypse that hasn’t ...