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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Infant stars are glowing gloriously in this image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA Spitzer Space...
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle...
The Webb Telescope arrives in Kourou, French Guiana, is offloaded from the MN Colibri and moved to the launch site.
STS061-99-009 (9 Dec 1993) --- Sunlight reflects off the Space Shuttle Endeavour's aft windows and the shiny Hubble...
STS061-104-007 (5 Dec 1993) --- Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, holding to one of many strategically placed handrails...
An animation showing the removal of degraded Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) from the Hubble Space Telescope's Bay 8...
The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit in its post-servicing mission 3B configuration. An animation of the Hubble Space...
An animation showing the removal of degraded Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) from the Hubble Space Telescope's Bay 8...
An animation showing the removal of degraded Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) from the Hubble Space Telescope's Bay 8...
The last of the five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA’s James Webb...
The Webb Telescope begins its journey to the launch site leaving the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach,...
NASA release April 1, 2010 Fermi's Large Area Telescope resolved high-energy gamma rays from an extended region...
This shiny silver "waterfall" is actually the five layers of the full-scale engineering model of NASA's...
The first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic...
NASA image release September 29, 2011 This image of the distant active galaxy Markarian 509 was taken in April 2007...
This carved-out cloud of gas and dust has been nicknamed the "Jack-o'-lantern Nebula" because it looks like a cosmic...
A composite image of the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the...
This series of eight NASA Hubble Space Telescope "snapshots" shows the evolution of the P-Q complex, also called the...
STS061-86-030 (4 Dec 1993) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is pictured in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo...
STS061-79-087 (4 Dec. 1993) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), backdropped over Madagascar, is berthed in the...
An aging star last hurrah creates a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space. This...
Our Webb Space Telescope’s new look at an exploded star, teams prepare to install some Moon rocket hardware, and...
The discovery of likely Eta Carinae twins in other galaxies will help scientists better understand this brief phase...
Ultraviolet observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 illustrate two key elements in the thin...