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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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GEDI is a full-waveform lidar instrument that makes detailed measurements of the 3D structure of the Earth’s...
The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the...
The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is a laser altimeter that will measure the heights of...
ISS030-E-030125 (10 Jan. 2012) --- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, works on the Selectable...
Scientists from NASA's Cassini mission suggested in a 2016 paper that the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene...
A photon demonstration was conducted in front of news media and social media participants during a prelaunch mission...
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder,...
AiroCide Ti02, an anthrax-killing air scrubber manufactured by KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw,...
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,...
It’s an age-old astronomical truth: To resolve smaller and smaller physical details of distant celestial objects,...
This visualization shows gamma rays detected during 3C 279's big flare by the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi...
Polydiacetylenes are a unique class of highly conjugated organic polymers that are of interest for both electronic...
What does our planet look like from space? Most are familiar with the beloved images of the blue marble or pale blue...
This is a photo of a technician at KES Science and Technology Inc., in Kernesaw, Georgia, assembling the AiroCide...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
The potential planet-forming disk (or "protoplanetary disk") of a sun-like star is being violently ripped away by...
S116-E-07663 (20 Dec. 2006) --- One of the STS-116 crewmembers onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery captured this...
Deep Space Station 13 (DSS-13) at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California – part...
Like the Crab Nebula, the Vela Supernova Remnant has a radio pulsar at its center. In this image taken by the High...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Cassini gazed toward high southern latitudes near Saturn's south pole to observe ghostly curtains of dancing light...
This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar on July 28, 2025,...
Amelia Quan, the mechanical integration lead for NASA's SPHEREx mission, is seen with a V-groove radiator, a piece...