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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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Imagine you are an Astronaut on the Moon. Your job for the next eight hours will be exploring, collecting science...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer...
Research with plants in microgravity offers many exciting opportunities to gain new insights and could improve...
Scientists at MSFC have been studying the properties of Aerogel for several years. Aerogel, the lightest solid known...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist's concept. The mission will not only seek out and study...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Mechanical engineering students from Louisiana State University joined engineers and...
The USML-1 Glovebox (GBX) is a multi-user facility supporting 16 experiments in fluid dynamics, combustion sciences,...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English...
Before collecting a rock sample at a spot nicknamed "Lefroy Bay," NASA's Perseverance Mars rover employed an...
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
NASA's Perseverance rover has been investigating rocks at the front of the delta in Mars' Jezero Crater along the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight STS-114 crew are conducting a...
Dr. Lisa E. Freed of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her colleagues have reported that initially...
In this Apollo 17 onboard photo, Lunar Module pilot Harrison H. Schmitt collects rock samples from a huge boulder...
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities...
This enhanced-color mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance...
A team of specialists in a field known as planetary protection has been working to keep NASA’s Europa Clipper...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Arturo Ramierez, Charles Curley and Duke Follistein, KSC and Costa Rican researchers,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Reporters at the dedication ceremony of a NASA hangar at the San Jose, Costa Rica,...
AS17-140-21496 (13 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge,...
The first direct exposure to Lunar material for Crew Reception Personnel probably happened late Friday, 07/25/1969....
S69-53894 (October 1969) --- Dr. Charles H. Walkinshaw, Jr., Spaceflight Biotechnology Branch botanist, Preventive...
STS078-429-017 (20 June-7 July 1996) --- Aboard the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Columbia, astronaut...
On December 31, 2018, OSIRIS-REx completed its Preliminary Survey of asteroid Bennu and entered into orbit. Bennu...