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NASA's Image and Video Library is one of the most comprehensive public archives of space imagery in the world, containing over 140,000 images, videos, and audio recordings spanning more than six decades of space exploration. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle era, and today's cutting-edge observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, this collection documents humanity's journey into the cosmos.
The library includes imagery from diverse sources: telescopes like Hubble and Webb that capture deep-space nebulae, galaxies, and exoplanets; planetary missions like the Mars rovers ( browse Mars photos) and Cassini at Saturn; Earth observation satellites ( see EPIC imagery); astronaut photography from the ISS; and documentation of rocket launches, spacecraft assembly, and ground testing. Most NASA images are in the public domain and free to download at full resolution for educational, editorial, and personal use.
Use the search bar above to find specific subjects — try queries like "Apollo 11," "Hubble Deep Field," "Mars surface," or "astronaut EVA." You can also filter by media type (image, video, or audio). For a daily curated experience, visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission celebrates its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way...
ISS030-E-010008 (4 Dec. 2011) --- One of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
In the quest to better understand the birth of stars and the formation of new worlds, astronomers have used NASA's...
Sometimes, the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart. The same is true for galaxies like...
ISS028-E-029679 (21 Aug. 2011) --- A night time view of India-Pakistan borderlands is featured in this image...
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, as...
On Sept. 14, 2017, one day before making its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft used...
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side...
The Boomerang nebula, called the "coldest place in the universe," reveals its true shape to the Atacama...
The STS-40 patch makes a contemporary statement focusing on human beings living and working in space. Against a...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found preserved, ancient mud cracks that scientists believe were formed after long...
This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas...
STS099-355-024 (11-22 February 2000) -- Two separate atmospheric optical phenomena appear in this 35mm photograph...
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this...
Showcased at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS...
STS40-S-001 (May 1990) --- The STS-40 patch makes a contemporary statement focusing on human beings living and...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024, the 1,212th...
Engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia prepare to encapsulate the LADEE spacecraft into the fairing...
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft being prepared in the clean room at Wallops...
This is an X-band image of an oil slick experiment conducted in the North Sea, Germany. The image is centered at...
This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas...
This graphic illustrates how scientists on NASA's Cassini mission think water interacts with rock at the bottom of...
Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., prepare NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust...