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 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....
The image from NASA Hubble Telescope shows spiral arms and dust clouds in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy. Visible...
Helium is the element with the lowest boiling point. Find out how the James Webb Space Telescope uses this special...
A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a “mini” monster black hole,...
Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images, back in touch with a spacecraft on an...
This image is one of two images from NASA Hubble Space Telescope comparing the movement of Jupiter clouds. The...
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Mission team members monitor the progress of Webb’s second primary mirror wing...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from the space shuttle Endeavour following a week and a half...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), backdropped over Madagascar, is berthed in Endeavour's cargo bay following its...
STS109-E-5102 (3 March 2002) --- The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia....
STS109-E-5048 (3 March 2002) --- The top portion of the Hubble Space Telescope is photographed some 350 miles above...
STS109-E-5072 (3 March 2002) --- The top portion of the Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against dark space,...
STS109-E-5104 (3 March 2002) --- The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia....
STS109-E-5141 (3 March 2002) --- Astronauts will find these handrails on the Hubble Space Telescope very helpful...
During STS-31, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), grappled by the remote manipulator system (RMS) end effector, is...