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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These four panels show the Whirlpool galaxy — which is actually a pair of galaxies also known as Messier 51 and NGC...
A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted recently by Northrop Grumman in...
The Roman Space Telescope's Spacecraft Bus and Integrated Payload Assembly is crane lifted inside the cleanroom at...
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the home galaxy of the...
These two maps of the giant asteroid Vesta show patterns of brightness from NASA Hubble Space Telescope top and NASA...
This artist concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a dead star, or white dwarf, called G29-38. NASA...
Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed...
This composite image is of spiral galaxy M106 NGC 4258; optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey is yellow, radio...
Our Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. Thanks to...
This image shows the first-ever map of the surface of an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. Showing...
These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA Hubble Space Telescope...
The galaxy Messier 100, or M100, shows its swirling spiral in this infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope....
This artist concept is of the one-million-year-old star system called UX Tau A, approximately 450 light-years away....
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured the Cat’s Eye nebula, or NGC 6543, is a well-studied example of a planetary...
In visible light, the bulk of our Milky Way galaxy stars are eclipsed behind thick clouds of galactic dust and gas....
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased...
The discovery of likely Eta Carinae twins in other galaxies will help scientists better understand this brief phase...
This image of supernova remnant G54.1+0.3 includes radio, infrared and X-ray light. The saturated yellow point at...