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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This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of the hunter...
Saturn's frigid moon Titan has some characteristics that are oddly similar to Earth, but still slightly alien. It...
These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this...
This Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) global mosaic of Titan's surface brightness in the near-infrared at 938...
The veils of Saturn's most mysterious moon have begun to lift in Cassini's eagerly awaited first glimpse of the...
In the quest to better understand the birth of stars and the formation of new worlds, astronomers have used NASA's...
Sometimes, the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart. The same is true for galaxies like...
Canada has already had its share of wildfires this season, and the smoke from these wildfires is slowly drifting...
During its final targeted flyby of Titan on April 22, 2017, Cassini's radar mapper got the mission's last close look...
This image shows one of the closest views of Xanadu Regio, a large bright region on Titan's surface, which also can...
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this...
This colorful image shows a nebula – a cloud of gas and dust in space – captured by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space...
**This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EDT on July 13, one day before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto.** New...
A cluster of newborn stars herald their birth in this interstellar Valentine Day commemorative picture obtained with...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
This global digital map of Saturn's moon Titan was created using images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft's imaging...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, has captured in stunning...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are...
This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born....
Professor Peter B. Sunderland talks Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) Flame Design Experiment...
This image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
Hidden below Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston is an area engineers used to test critical...