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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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NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
STS071-741-004 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Docked already with Russia's Mir Space Station and backdropped against a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of...
An artist's rendering of the air-breathing, hypersonic X-43B, the third and largest of NASA's Hyper-X series flight...
View detail image here: bit.ly/1bvJlaN Arctic air has surged into the U.S. pushing into the Southeastern states and...
Every day, Todd Dugan brings the Space Shuttle closer to Return to Flight by lending a hand... and an arm. Todd is...
Strands of solar material at the sun's edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period in this footage...
The drive fan for the Icing Research Tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Return to Flight mission...
On July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy steamed south in the Arctic Ocean toward the edge of the sea ice. The...
NASA image captured March 27, 2012 NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its...
The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to...
NASA image release January 10, 2011 In this image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob...
NASA image acquired September 15, 1999 This Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez...
Release date: July 1, 2008 SN 1006 Supernova Remnant (Hubble) A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy....
NASA satellite imagery from July 10 revealed a very clear and cloudless eye in the Northwestern Pacific’s Typhoon...
Cassini has sighted Prometheus and Pandora, the two F-ring-shepherding moons whose unpredictable orbits both...
Caption: This is an image of magnetic loops on the sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 18,...
Next on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: Space Shuttle Discovery roared into space and successfully completed a...
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a UFO — well, the UFO Galaxy, to be precise. NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen...
Of all the planets NASA has explored, none have matched the dynamic complexity of our own. Earth is constantly...
The ice of a piedmont glacier spills from a steep valley onto a relatively flat plain, where it spreads out...