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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An artist's concept of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft firing its...
ISS013-E-74843 (2 Sept. 2006) --- Rio Negro in Amazonia, Brazil is featured in this image photographed by an...
NASA image acquired December 17, 2010 In mid-December 2010, suspended sediments transformed the southern end of Lake...
Caption: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M5.7 class flare on May 3, 2013 at 1:30...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded two 25-frame videos showing the passage of 12 hours on Nov. 8, 2023, the...
Just like drivers sometimes use snow to clean their car mirrors in winter, two Exelis Inc. engineers are practicing...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
Caption: A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This...
The faint green glow of aurora can be seen above the clouds at Esrange Space Center in this photo from Aug. 23,...
Three months before its scheduled arrival at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of...
Caption: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M5.7 class flare on May 3, 2013 at 1:30...
Two recently launched instruments that were designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern...
ISS030-E-174652 (28 Feb. 2012) --- A dust storm near the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA is featured...
A new NASA-developed, laser-based space communication system will enable higher rates of satellite communications...
Tidal disruption event Every galaxy has a black hole at its center. Usually they are quiet, without gas accretions,...
On Jan. 22, 2015, robotic flight controllers successfully installed NASA’s Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS)...
An artist's concept showing the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is seen orbiting...
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are...
NASA image release April 22, 2010 This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre...
Shown here is an identical copy of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, superconducting nanowire...
The subject of this image is NGC 6861, a galaxy discovered in 1826 by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Almost...
This NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 (also called...
This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light-years away in the...
This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. As...