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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 December 2016, snow fell in the Sahara for the first time since 1979. In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in near-infrared light, transforms the pillars into eerie, wispy...
This image is from a movie from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the southern high-latitudes region of Mars...
Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters. A neighboring galaxy is never far away. But this galaxy,...
NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
Arctic air has surged into the U.S. pushing into the Southeastern states and dropping high temperatures there into...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Lights on Launch Pad 39B put Space Shuttle Discovery in the spotlight after the...
This stereo scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows boulders composed, in part, of...
Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center's Interstellar Propulsion Research department are proposing different...
NASA image acquired August 11, 2010. After breaking off the Petermann Glacier on August 5, 2010, a massive ice...
Precise timing is a key element for NASA's New Horizons mission. Scientists say there's an urgency to get to Pluto...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth – and, during the austral summer, it is also the...
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb. 24,...
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the vibrant core of the galaxy NGC 3125. Discovered by John...
NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
This entrancing image shows a few of the tenuous threads that comprise Sh2-308, a faint and wispy shell of gas...
The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as UGC 5797. UGC...
Arches of magnetic field lines towered over the sun’s edge as a pair of active regions began to rotate into view in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
How does the Remote Manipulator System work on the Space Shuttle? The Remote Manipulator System is made for us by...