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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Carrying a crew of seven, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia soared through some pre-dawn clouds into the sky as it...
This is the insignia of the STS-109 Space Shuttle mission. Carrying a crew of seven, the Space Shuttle Orbiter...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Due to Tropical Storm Fay, the roadside canals and surrounding grounds are flooded at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Due to Tropical Storm Fay, the ground is flooded on a road alongside the turn basin at NASA's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An alligator seeks higher ground alongside a road at NASA's Kennedy Space Center during the...
The TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven planets, all around the size of Earth. Three of them -- TRAPPIST-1e,...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) High Speed Photometer (HSP). The HSP measures the...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar...
Caption: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with...
This composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images combined with the...
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The bus-size Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is carefully being transferred on March 29...
This is an onboard photo of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) power control unit (PCU), the heart of the HST's power...
This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods,...
This illustration depicts the configuration of the Spacelab-2 in the cargo bay of the orbiter. Spacelab was a...
NASA/ESA Hubble Release Date: March 25, 2010 This image shows a smoothed reconstruction of the total (mostly dark)...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At...
The galaxy UGC 1382 has been revealed to be far larger and stranger than previously thought. Astronomers relied on a...
NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition on April 29, 2017, taking images from a position...
To view a video of this story go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8448332724 Working with astronomical image...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). The HST's two...
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS). The...
This graph presents known properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (labeled b through h), showing how they...