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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One Moon Among Billions
The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the...
NASA Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada guides this tour of the rover's view of the Martian surface. This...
NASA's Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec....
ESA Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The...
Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one...
In April 2016, NASA New Horizons spacecraft observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile 145-kilometer wide Kuiper Belt object KBO...
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of the blue-green planet Neptune provide three snapshots of changing weather...
Created with the help of supercomputers, this frame from a simulation shows the formation of a massive galaxy during...
Amber Straughn and John Mather talk about the quest to find out how galaxies have evolved over billions of years.
This animated artist's concept depicts a scene of water breaking through the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, which...
This is an illustration of a planet that is four times the mass of Jupiter and orbits 5 billion miles from a...
This illustration summarizes the almost 14-billion-year-long history of our universe. It shows the main events that...
The Tadpole galaxy is the result of a recent galactic interaction in the local universe. These spectacular images...
After traveling more than 1.5 billion kilometers 948 million miles, NASA Magellan spacecraft was inserted into orbit...
This artist's concept depicts an aerial view of what the Jezero Crater area of Mars may have looked like billions of...
Satellite images from 2022 (Main image) and 1999 (Figure A) capture the retreat of Zachariae Isstrom, a glacier in...
Satellite images from 2022 (Main image) and 1985 (Figure A) capture the retreat of Jakobshavn Isbrae, a glacier on...
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old. The...
Like great friends, galaxies stick together. Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a handful...
A rare, infrared view of a developing star and its flaring jets taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows us what...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft the valley networks on Mars are terrains eroded by...
Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 lower center and Abell 401 top...
This image of the Earth is one of 60 frames taken by NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990 from a distance of...