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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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“I was born in India soon after we got independence from the British. So we were just beginning to get access to...
A researcher examines a model being installed in the test section of the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel...
The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is shown during a...
Technicians in the payload processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform a fit check between...
This image shows the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator for NASA'S Mars 2020 Perseverance rover...
A section of the Centaur Standard Shroud transported to Nuclear Rocket Dynamics and Control Facility, or B-3 Test...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15...
An array of rocket engines displayed in the Propulsion Systems Laboratory for the 1966 Inspection held at the...
The plot of data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR (right), amounts to a "smoking gun" of...
Most supermassive black holes in the universe are hiding, but NASA’s NuSTAR mission can find them by using...
An ammonia oxidation plant at the Plum Brook Ordnance Works near Sandusky, Ohio, which later became the National...
The 56-foot tall, 24,400-pound Skylab shroud installed in the Space Power Facility’s vacuum chamber at the National...
This frame from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a "core collapse" supernova. As atoms fuse inside...
Curiosity's Russian-made instrument for checking hydration levels in the ground beneath the rover detected an...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At...
The single fire that ignited and split into nine separate fires still blazes in Southern California today....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observes some of the most beautiful galaxies in our skies — spirals sparkling...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has captured in stunning...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf...
Nova Stars are essentially giant fusion reactions occurring in the vacuum of space. Because stars have so much mass,...
Despite being less famous than their elliptical and spiral galactic cousins, irregular dwarf galaxies, such as the...
NASA image release April 27, 2012 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into...
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are...