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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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This image graphs four gases released evolved when powdered rock from the target rock Cumberland was heated inside...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...
OSIRIS-REx Press Conference following the successful recovery of the sample return capsule, held at the Dugway...
Members of team Mountaineers pose with officials from the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot...
The NASA Centennial Challenges prize, level one, is presented to team Mountaineers for successfully completing level...
OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu better than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on...
The Global Hawk Whole Air Sampler, or GWAS instrument compresses samples of high-altitude air in canisters to...
On Sunday, September 24 at [insert time], NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely delivered an estimated 8.8 ounces of...
French Scientist Francois Robert holds up a sample obtained from the Stardust Mission for the camera in the Stardust...
On July 10, 2011, Jens Ehn of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (left), and Christie Wood of Clark University...
iss056e005940 (6/10/2018) --- Air sample collection hardware for The MARROW Study (Bone Marrow Adipose Reaction: Red...
S69-40939 (August 1969) --- Landrum Young, Brown and Root - Northrop technician, examines mice in the Animal...
S71-42955 (August 1971) --- A close-up view of Apollo 15 lunar sample no. 15415 in the Non-Sterile Nitrogen...
iss049e052550 (10/29/20160 --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is photographed removing samples from the Minus...
iss056e005938 (6/10/2018) --- Air sample collection hardware for The MARROW Study (Bone Marrow Adipose Reaction: Red...
jsc2024e008542 - Curation team members from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) division at...
iss069e060322 (August 15, 2023) -- NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg swaps samples for a space manufacturing study inside...
ISS015-E-32031 (October 2007) --- Cosmonaut Oleg V. Kotov, Expedition 15 flight engineer representing Russia's...
ISS019-E-005715 (11 April 2009) --- Astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 19/20 flight engineer, performs an...
ISS020-E-007156 (7 June 2009) --- Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, Expedition 20 flight engineer,...
ISS026-E-023768 (27 Dec. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman, Expedition 26 flight engineer, prepares...
AS16-107-17561 (16-27 April 1972) --- One of the Apollo 16 astronauts scoops up lunar soil at the base of a small...
iss042e021398 (12/5/2014) --- A view of Microbiome swab kit containing Microbiome samples from various physical...
ISS014-E-17547 (20 March 2007) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA space...