Explore NASA's vast collection of space images, videos, and audio from missions past and present.
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 spectrum shows the light from a dusty, distant galaxy located 11 billion light-years away. The galaxy is...
In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, workers check the deployment of the cover of the telescope on NASA Galaxy...
This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun....
This graphic shows the relative positions of NASA most distant spacecraft in early 2011, looking at the solar system...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers layered sedimentary rocks on the floor of an impact crater...
On its fourth and final targeted flyby of Rhea, NASA Cassini spacecraft provided this stunning view of the ancient...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a four-way collision, or merger, in a giant cluster of galaxies, called...
The BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole used a specialized array of superconducting detectors to capture polarized...
Ancient impact craters shown in this image of Jupiter moon Ganymede taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft testify to the...
This electron microscope image shows extremely tiny tubular structures that are possible microscopic fossils of...
The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope is displayed on a...
This image captured by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of an ancient, approximately 3 billion year-old landslide...
This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200...
A galaxy cluster 7.7 billion light-years away has been discovered using infrared data from NASA Wide-field Infrared...
Astronomers using NASA Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster...
The green and red splotch in this image is the most active star-making galaxy in the very distant universe....
This graphic illustrates the evolution of satellites designed to measure ancient light leftover from the big bang...
Cassini looks down upon Rhea, whose cratered surface was already ancient before any complex life developed on Earth....
Millions of galaxies populate the patch of sky known as the COSMOS field, short for Cosmic Evolution Survey, a...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope reveals vast reservoirs of hot gas in a galaxy about a billion...
Radio telescopes cannot see Voyager 1 in visible light, but rather see the spacecraft signal in radio light. This...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4...
This artist's conception illustrates the decline in our universe's "birth-rate" over time. When the universe was...
The goosebump-like features in the center of this image were formed by water billions of years ago. NASA's Curiosity...