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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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In this illustration showing NEO Surveyor, NASA's next-generation near-Earth object hunter, the spacecraft floats in...
NASA's SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after...
This illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or...
The CTB 1 supernova remnant resembles a ghostly bubble in this image, which combines new 1.5 gigahertz observations...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the home galaxy of the...
NASA’s flying telescope SOFIA captured a crisp infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Spanning more...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset)....
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset)....
This image composite shows a giant galactic blob (red) and the three merging galaxies NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...
The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest part of the observatory—five layers of thin,...
The powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant...
NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays New images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where...
This video shows the SPHEREx observatory's field of view as it scans across a section of the sky, observing the...
NASA image release August 5, 2010 A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great...
NASA image release April 12, 2011 Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe,...
Image released April 19, 2013. Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic...
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle...
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of...
Swedish Delegation Visits GSFC – May 3, 2017 - Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences listen...
Swedish Delegation Visits GSFC – May 3, 2017 - Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences listen...
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
The Lowell Observatory's High-speed Imaging Photometer for Occultation rests on its dolly in the lab prior to...