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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's concept illustrates one possible answer to the puzzle of the "giant galactic blobs." These blobs...
Animations for media and public use. These animation sequences show NASA’s Lunar Flashlight SmallSat deploying in...
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission stacked all four of its spacecraft in preparation for vibration...
First evidence of a ring around the planet Jupiter is seen in this photograph taken by Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979....
This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and...
The towing ship, Liberty, towed a recovered solid rocket booster (SRB) for the STS-3 mission to Port Canaveral,...
Under the watchful eyes of workers at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS), the second stage of a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Delta II rocket with the Dawn spacecraft on top waits in the early morning light...
The towing ship, Liberty, towed a recovered solid rocket booster (SRB) for the STS-5 mission to Port Canaveral,...
This majestic false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born....
This is the first image of Saturn's ultraviolet aurora taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on...
NASA's SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after...
James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Malea Planum,a polar region in the Southern hemisphere of...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the most violent stars in our galaxy, veiled in cosmic dust. For the...
P-21751 C Range: 1.2 million kilometers This Voyager 2 color photo of Ganymede, the largest Galilean satellite,...
More than thirty years since their accidental discovery, gamma-ray bursts are still a mystery to scientists. These...
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed Pale Blue Dot, is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Getting ready for the STS-123 mission, space shuttle Endeavour begins rollout to...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The first four Shuttle astronauts -- seated, from left, Richard Truly, Joe Engle,...
This image shows brown dwarf HIP 79124 B, located 23 times as far from its host star as Earth is from the sun. The...
Students from Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory School in New Orleans enjoyed a hands-on experience at the INFINITY at...
This image of Ceres approximates how the dwarf planet's colors would appear to the eye. This view of Ceres, produced...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft is lowered toward a work stand....