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 x-ray image of the Cassiopeia A (CAS A) supernova remnant is the official first light image of the Chandra...
This photograph shows a TRW technician inspecting the completely assembled Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) in the...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National...
After barely 2 months in space, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) took this sturning image of the Crab Nebula, the...
This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being assembled in the clean room of the Lockheed Missile...
This close-up of astronaut and mission specialist Kathryn Thornton readies herself for submersion into the water in...
What look like giant twisters are spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These images are, in actuality,...
Residing roughly 17 million light years from Earth, in the northern constellation Coma Berenices, is a merged star...
This image is a color composite of the supernova remnant E0102-72: x-ray (blue), optical (green), and radio (red)....
Leon Van Speybroeck of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts was awarded the...
This image illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA). One of the three major...
Astronauts Jim Voss and Jay Apt perform check-out procedures on a Hubble Space Telescope mock-up while working in...
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) High Speed Photometer (HSP). The HSP measures the...
The STS-31 crew launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990 at 8:33:51am (EDT). Included in the...
The STS-31 crew launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990 at 8:33:51am (EDT). Included in the...
Astronomers are studying the unusual appearance of Saturn's rings. The top portion of this Hubble Space Telescope...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National...
Extra vehicular activity - Astronaut Kathy Thornton on the end of orbiter Endeavour's remote manipulator system arm,...
Chandra X-Ray Observatory took this first x-ray picture of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on October 13, 1999. The blue...
Astronauts Mark Lee and Rich Clifford perform test check-out procedures on the Hubble Space Telescope in the...
The razor sharp eye of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) easily resolves the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104)....
This drawing illustrates the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's), Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS). The...
This illustration depicts the design features of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Support Systems Module (SSM)....
This photograph shows the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), formerly Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF),...