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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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Magnetic loops carrying gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars are shown in this artist...
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander reaching with its Robotic Arm and taking a picture of the surface underneath the lander....
This graphic illustrates the evolution of satellites designed to measure ancient light leftover from the big bang...
The artist concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler...
Gripped in the claw of the constellation Scorpius sits the reflection nebula DG 129, a cloud of gas and dust that...
This photo was taken by NASA Voyager 2 wide-angle camera. Light at methane wavelengths is mostly absorbed in the...
Rhea and Dione seem like dark and light fraternal twins in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft, with each of...
This MOC image shows dark-toned, windblown sands and ripples, surrounding a light-toned hill, interpreted to be...
Ancient lava flows dating back 2,000 to 15,000 years are shown in light green and red on the left side of this space...
This MOC image shows windblown ripples on the floor of Auqakuh Vallis. The light-toned area, running diagonally...
Millions of galaxies populate the patch of sky known as the COSMOS field, short for Cosmic Evolution Survey, a...
This three-color combination constructed from ESA Planck two highest frequency channels and an image obtained with...
Listed as Cassiopeia A, this remnant of the supernova is one of the brightest radio sources in the known universe....
This artist concept shows a feeding, or active, supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the...
This mosaic from NASA WISE Telescope is of the Soul Nebula. It is an open cluster of stars surrounded by a cloud of...
Only a sharp and careful eye can make out the subtle variations in Titan clouds when viewed in visible light by NASA...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover as the rover drove over a dune spanning Dingo Gap on Mars. The light-toned dome on the...
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Astronomers observed...
In this processed Spitzer Space Telescope image, baby star HH 46/47 can be seen blowing two massive bubbles. The...
This image from NASA Phoenix Mars Lander of the Canadian-built meteorological station lidar, which was successfully...
This image, acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft, is of the Carstens, Calif. wildfire which continues to burn in the...
This plot of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope reveals vast reservoirs of hot gas in a galaxy about a billion...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a dust factory 30 million light-years away in the spiral...
In this stunning image, NASA Cassini spacecraft looks at the dark side of Saturn largest moon. The narrowing circle...