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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A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 24, 2006....
This global digital map of Saturn moon Titan was created using images taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft imaging...
NASA Cassini spacecraft peers through the atmosphere of Saturn largest moon, Titan, to examine the dark region...
This space radar image of Athens, Greece, shows the sprawling, modern development of this ancient capital city....
This diagram compares the planets of our inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet star system about 500...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
The light corner of the image from NASA EarthKAM is Lake Torrens, an ephemeral salt lake in South Australia. The...
Magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy, located 13 million...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image close up view of Copernicus crater showing light-toned...
The Boomerang nebula, called the coldest place in the universe, reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large...
A short animation illustrating the relationship of temperature and wavelength. Hotter objects have a shorter...
This full-circle, panorama shows the terrain around the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on part of a...
This image of the microwave sky was synthesized using data spanning the range of light frequencies detected by ESA...
This picture highlights a slice of Saturn largest ring. The ring red band was discovered by NASA Spitzer Space...
Looking like a spider web swirled into a spiral, galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope using infrared light shows what astronomers think is one of the coldest...
Natural color view of Ganymede from NASA Galileo spacecraft during its first encounter with the satellite. The dark...
These images from NASA GALEX and NuSTAR is of Andromeda, a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way but larger in size. It...
Alternating light and dark bands, extending a great distance across Saturn’s D and C rings taken by NASA Cassini...
This set of images from NASA Cassini mission shows the turbulent power of a monster Saturn storm. The visible-light...
This view from the microscopic imager on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a type of light-colored,...
This chart depicts the electromagnetic spectrum, highlighting the X-ray portion. NASA NuSTAR and ESA XMM-Newton...
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, taken in infrared light, have helped to reveal that a small asteroid...
On April 7, 2005, NASA Deep Impact spacecraft Impactor Target Sensor camera recorded this image of M11, the Wild...