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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Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...
This series of image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope on Jan. 25, 2020, shows part of the California Nebula,...
These images of the Saline Valley area, California, were acquired March 30, 2000 and cover a full ASTER scene (60 by...
Our next question comes from Palak from Chicago. How will the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter find out about the...
A special lighting technology was developed for space-based commercial plant growth research on NASA's Space...
In April 2025, just weeks after its launch, NASA's SPHEREx mission revealed a cloud of dust in a patch of sky inside...
iss063e026157 (June 11, 2020) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy configures the new...
The 8.2-foot (2.5-meter) primary mirror on NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution...
This spectral "fingerprint" of methane was produced from data taken during a September 2023 test at NASA's Jet...
Why does Saturn look like it's been painted with a dark brush in this infrared image, but Dione looks untouched?...
This 3-D video can be seen with red and cyan 3-D paper glasses. Launched ten years ago, on Oct. 25, 2006, the twin...
Looking beyond Saturn's south pole, this was the Cassini spacecraft's view of the distant, icy moon Enceladus on...
A small prominence slowly rose further up above the sun, then fell apart and back into the sun over about seven...
This 72-color near-global map of the Red Planet was captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) using its...
The Sun erupted with an X8 solar flare, one of the largest of the current solar cycle (Sept. 10, 2017). Its source...
This image of the star-forming region Rho Ophiuchi was taken in 1983 by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS),...
The mosaic of Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) data shows the location of the data acquired by VIR during the...
Each day NASA solar scientists produce overlays (in white lines) that show their estimation of how the magnetic...
This sequence of images shows the sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same time...
The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and...
Range : 50,000 miles This multispectral map of Australia, and surrounding seas was obtained by the Galileo...
This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) from...
NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured these infrared images of a nearby spiral galaxy that resembles our own...