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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Damon Petty, with United Space Alliance, gets ready to place insulation blankets on...
The graph at right presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled...
A Rosette water sampler system that will be used during the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study...
Range : 5 million miles (8.025 million kilometers) This is a morning shot of Ganymede, largest of Jupiter's 13...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Thermal Protection System Facility, Pilar Ryan, with United Space Alliance,...
iss074e0043738 (Jan. 3, 2026) --- Egypt's Greater Cairo area, with a population of over 22 million and comprised of...
Learn about the features of the ionosphere! This little-explored region exists between space and Earth. It is home...
NASA scientists are investigating key questions about hurricanes in a new mission from the skies. This August, the...
B-roll for media. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is an Earth-observing satellite that will collect data on sea...
In this image from NASA Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see quite a spectacular layering pattern inside an...
Wispy clouds float across the Martian sky in this accelerated sequence of enhanced images from NASA's Curiosity Mars...
Clouds drift across the sky above a Martian horizon in this accelerated sequence of enhanced images from NASA's...
The Kuril Islands are a string of volcanically-formed islands that stretch between Russia and Japan, separating the...
ISS029-E-012564 (29 Sept. 2011) --- The Midwestern United States at night with Aurora Borealis is featured in this...
This map of Pluto, created from images taken from June 27-July 3, 2015, by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager...
Early in Martian history, liquid water energetically carved the surface, forming channel systems that look...
Instrumentation of the wing and strut that comprise the Mock Truss-Braced Wing 10-foot model are complete at NASA’s...
After three years of El Niño and La Niña, the Pacific is finally calming down in the tropics but still shows signs...
NASA MESSENGER is again sending images back to Earth after the spacecraft emerged from superior solar conjunction,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the three Ka-Band Objects Observation and...
Geologists aren't quite sure what to make of the dark splotch in the middle of this image from NASA's Mars...
STS060-94-072 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- The city of Montreal is located on the island of Montreal at the confluence of the...
S81-34448 (July 1981) --- Astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton, STS-3 pilot, fully suited, gets a preview of what it might...
NASA's F-15B research testbed jet from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center flew in the supersonic shockwave of a...