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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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This colorful image shows a nebula – a cloud of gas and dust in space – captured by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space...
After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA’s MAVEN mission has...
Hidden below Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston is an area engineers used to test critical...
Professor Anna-Lisa Paul and Professor Rob Ferl discuss growing food in a microgravity environment and the research...
Contamination from organic molecules can harm delicate instruments and engineers are taking special care at NASA to...
A cluster of newborn stars herald their birth in this interstellar Valentine Day commemorative picture obtained with...
An artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft firing its...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
Space travel is difficult and expensive – it would cost thousands of dollars to launch a bottle of water to the...
This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great...
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) was launched aboard NASA's Perseverance rover to test a...
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications...
A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet – an effect not seen...
An artist's concept showing the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is seen orbiting...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured these infrared images of a nearby spiral galaxy that resembles our own...
This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great...
This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born....
This image from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a "core collapse" supernova. As atoms fuse inside...
This image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of...
NASA image release October 5, 2010 Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on September...
Using the “day-night band” (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi National...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
During preparations for NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory launch on Sept. 6,...