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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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever portrait of the solar system taken by NASA’s...
Astronaut Frank Borman at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight...
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and...
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will test new tools that block...
This is the insignia of the STS-109 Space Shuttle mission. Carrying a crew of seven, the Space Shuttle Orbiter...
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and...
An engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is shown here with the fast steering mirror, a component of the...
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science...
NASA release July 19, 2011 Click here to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope The secondary mirror (shown...
Release date: July 1, 2008 SN 1006 Supernova Remnant (Hubble) A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy....
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. Its...
NASA release July 19, 2011 Click here to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope The secondary mirror (shown...
A NASA-funded program provided valuable information for responders and groups supporting the recovery efforts for...
To view a video of this story go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8448332724 Working with astronomical image...
This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a highly...
Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd — at least in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space...
These images and animation represent NASA radar observations of 4660 Nereus on Dec. 10, 2021, before the asteroid's...
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing...
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used data from an airborne radar to measure...
nside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked...
In late December 2014, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream...
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications...
The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a "snake" (upper...