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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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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) spacecraft, which will be launched...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An Orion test capsule sits inside a temporary clean room in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle...
iss050e016013 (12/14/2016) --- A view during Position Sensitive-Tissue Equivalent Proportional Chamber (PS-TEPC)...
ISS026-E-017736 (15 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Catherine (Cady) Coleman assists European Space Agency astronaut...
jsc2021e029744 (7/13/2021) --- A preflight view of the TECHNOLOGY BOX platform internal configuration without the...
The objective of this facility is to investigate the potential of space grown semiconductor materials by the vapor...
An extensive equatorial coronal hole has rotated so that it is now facing Earth (May 2-4, 2018). The dark coronal...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers get ready to install a science panel on the spacecraft...
A new active region appeared on June 19th, quickly growing in size over two days (June 20-22, 2018). Active regions...
An active region rotated into view and sputtered with numerous small flares and towering magnetic field lines that...
jsc2024e016253 (1/8/2024) --- The Nano Particle Haloing Suspension payload undergoes a fitting test at NASA's...
A prominence rose up above the sun, sent an arch of plasma to link up magnetically with an active region over a...
As an active region rotated into view, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory was able to observe well-defined magnetic...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Mark McManus makes a final inspection of...
Angie Huerta, a first-year Ph.D. student studying particle physics at the University of Notre Dame, recently...
Test engineers clean the ice cloud detection probe in the Icing Research Tunnel in between test runs. Steam is used...
jsc2021e029743 (7/13/2021) --- A preflight view of the TECHNOLOGY BOX results of the Chladni’s Figures experiment on...
An extensive equatorial coronal hole has rotated so that it is now facing Earth (May 2-4, 2018). The dark coronal...
This schematic details the third High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-3. The HEAO-3's mission was to survey and...
iss061e045447 (Nov. 15, 2019) --- NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is at the robotics workstation controlling the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Orbital Sciences Corp. L-1011 aircraft waits at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
iss074e0541212 (April 29, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jessica Meir configures...
Jets of icy particles burst from Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this brief movie sequence of four images taken on Nov....
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. ?This flare was...