Jessica Meir says it will be difficult to forego embraces with family and friends as she gets to grips with a new culture of physical distancing

Jessica Meir and colleague Andrew Morgan due to splash back down Friday after months at International Space Station; she says it was 'surreal' to watch virus crisis unfold

Russian space officials have taken extra precautions to protect the team during training and pre-flight preparations as the coronavirus outbreak has swept the world

Satellite imagery from NASA shows steep drop in noxious gas over central, eastern areas of country, as government forces closure of factories, transportation

Jessica Meir shows off her holiday cheer with menorah-festooned socks floating 408 kilometers above a cloud-draped Earth

'Not enough due diligence was done' in naming cosmic body Ultima Thule, says team member; site is renamed Arrokoth, a Native American word for sky

Jessica Meir posts photos of the Middle East and says it's part of the journey her Iraqi-born dad took, reaching US via Israel, Lebanon, Switzerland and Sweden

NASA aims to return to Moon by 2024, and has said at least one of the two astronauts who will walk its surface will be a woman

During congratulatory call with President Trump, Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir says 'there have been many others -- female spacewalkers -- before us'

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch step out of International Space Station to fix part of its solar power network