A NASA spacecraft will aim next year for the "coolest, hottest mission" under the sun. The space agency announced the red-hot mission to the sun Wednesday during a ceremony honoring astrophysicist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in history, a spacecraft has "touched" the sun, scientists announced Tuesday. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ...

At first, almost no one believed his findings on gigantic eruptions from the sun. Today, a NASA mission to fly through its outer atmosphere is named after him. By Kenneth Chang Eugene N. Parker, the ...

Eugene N. Parker, an astrophysicist who theorized the existence of solar wind and became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, died March 15 at a retirement ...