Eugene Parker

Prior to its August 2018 launch, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is packed safely inside the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing. (Credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls)

NASA’s Mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ Begins to Unravel Mysteries of Solar Wind

Dec 11, 2019 | Paul Caine

An update on the mission and findings of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, named after pioneering University of Chicago astrophysicist Eugene Parker, who first proposed the existence of the solar wind in 1958.

Retired University of Chicago astrophysicist Eugene Parker speaks with Chicago Tonight on Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

NASA’s Mission to ‘Our Star’ Named After UChicago’s Eugene Parker

Jul 31, 2018 | Amanda Vinicky

Next week, the retired University of Chicago astrophysicist, 91, will watch as a probe named in his honor is launched from the Kennedy Space Center and catapulted to the sun’s corona.