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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Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This visualization...
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space,...
On July 24, 2016, NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden...
Scientist John Dorelli explains the MMS mission's orbit and why the four spacecraft fly in a tetrahedron formation....
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission stacked all four of its spacecraft in preparation for vibration...
These are more wispy blue clouds from Sol 39 as seen by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder. The bright clouds near the...
Although the season is late spring, carbon dioxide ice still covers much of the surface at this high latitude site....
Brian Cairns, from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, talks about the launch of the GLORY mission during a...
Deena Dombrosky (Zin Technologies Engineer) is shown here filling a Procter & Gamble (P & G) sample that will be...
ISS026-E-017689 (15 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman assists cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev of...
Large boulders are visible in this enlargement of pictures taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) lander...
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system’s tail, called...
iss061e058273 (Nov. 22, 2019) --- NASA astronaut and spacewalker Andrew Morgan points his camera, protected from the...
jsc2021e029746(7/13/2021) --- A preflight view of the TECHNOLOGY BOX platform. The main objective of Technology Box...
iss068e0420749 (Jan. 25, 2023) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 68 Commander Sergey Prokopyev connects valves...
iss053e235256 (11/20/2017) --- A view of the Dellingr/RBLE Satellite deployment from the NanoRacks CubeSate Deployer...
iss057e074494 (Nov. 7, 2018) --- Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Sergey Prokopyev is pictured...
The magnetic field lines between a pair of active regions formed a beautiful set of swaying arches rising up above...
ISS003-E-6571 (12 October 2001) --- Cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin (foreground) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov, both Expedition...
Range : 1.5 million km ( 930,000 miles ) This high resolution view of Jupitor's ring, part of a set obtained by...
ISS034-E-033733 (24 Jan. 2013) --- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 34 commander, works with the InSPACE-3...
Tracks made by the Sojourner rover are visible in this image, taken by one of the cameras aboard Sojourner on Sol 3....
Illustration of a CME particle cloud blasted from the sun impacting Earth and creating aurora (in actual photo of...