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 photograph shows support structures wrapped in gold thermal blankets that look like a golden cage. The...
Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors in the clean room at...
nside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked...
The OTE (Optical Telescope Element) Simulator or OSIM wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered down...
The optics module of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary imager, the Near Infrared Camera, arrived at NASA’s...
NASA release April 1, 2010 Fermi's Large Area Telescope resolved high-energy gamma rays from an extended region...
The last of the five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA’s James Webb...
NASA image release December 9, 2010 Caption: The James Webb Space Telescope's Engineering Design Unit (EDU) primary...
The James Webb Space Telescope's ISIM structure recently endured a "gravity sag test" as it was rotated in...
NASA image release April 6, 2011 Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-ray telescopes...
JWST Full-Scale Model on Display. A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope was built by the prime...
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new...
NASA image captured October 7, 2010 View a video of this event here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5099028189 This was...
Date: 8 Nov 2013 - Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on...
Taken on 19 Nov. 2013, this image shows a composite "stacked" image of comet ISON. These five stacked...
To view a video of this story go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8448332724 Working with astronomical image...
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. Its...
This is an illustration of a supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 21 million suns, located in the middle of...
Image released April 19, 2013. Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic...
The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) will fly on the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission...
Dressed in a cleanroom suit to prevent contamination, Optics Technician Jeff Gum aligns a replacement Focal Plane...
Far beyond the stars in the constellation of Leo (The Lion) is irregular galaxy IC 559. IC 559 is not your everyday...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a "snake" (upper...
NASA image release August 5, 2010 A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great...