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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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Soviet COSMOS unmanned biosatellite
Millions of galaxies populate the patch of sky known as the COSMOS field, short for Cosmic Evolution Survey, a...
jsc2025e044835 (9/8/2016) --- Contents flown for the NanoRacks-Crystallization Of Silver Nitrate in Microgravity On...
This new Hubble image showcases a remarkable variety of objects at different distances from us, extending back over...
The Webb Space Telescope’s new look at the cosmos, technology used to fine tune Webb improves the vision of millions...
jsc2025e044834 (7/16/2016) --- The NanoRacks-Crystallization Of Silver Nitrate in Microgravity On a Silver Cathode...
jsc2025e044836 (9/29/2016) --- Silver nitrate crystals grown in microgravity as part of NanoRacks-Crystallization Of...
The blue dots in this field of galaxies, known as the COSMOS field, show galaxies that contain supermassive black...
In mid-November 2013, extratropical cyclone Cleopatra brought devastating flooding to the Italian island of Sardinia...
NASA/ESA Hubble Release Date: March 25, 2010 This image shows a smoothed reconstruction of the total (mostly dark)...
This illustration summarizes the almost 14-billion-year-long history of our universe. It shows the main events that...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer observed the star-forming cloud NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia...
Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe. The growing...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a little like the Vincent van Gogh of the infrared sky, providing the...
This satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar image using COSMO-SkyMed radar data, depicts the relative...
JSC2024E043924 (4/14/2025) --- The CosmoGirl-Sat CubeSat from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows deep...
The ESA (European Space Agency) Euclid telescope, with contributions from NASA, is shown here on Friday 23 June,...
iss050e034428 (01/18/2017) --- This long exposure photo taken from the International Space Station as it orbits...
In archived NASA data, researchers have discovered "super spiral" galaxies that dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the...
Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation does not include wavelength...
Wide Field Camera 3 potential observations at different wavelengths. (This animation displays labels for the...
In order to know how the universe will end, we must know what has happened to it so far. This is just one mystery...
WFIRST is a next-generation space telescope that will survey the infrared universe from beyond the orbit of the...
Workers in the launch tower at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, help guide the first segment of the...