Royalty-free space art / photography?

May 28, 2015 8:38 PM

Where can I find royalty free photography and art for science fiction and space? Things like black holes, worm holes, spaceships, and futuristic technology? I'm looking for something with a Weyland Industries vibe to it.
posted by cyrusw8 to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

IIRC, almost everything published by NASA is royalty free (having been paid for with taxpayer money). A good place to start would be your closest NASA Educator Resource Center (google it). They have tons of free posters and prints and such...a lot of booklets on various missions, some dating back decades, with some truly awesome space art on/in them.
posted by sexyrobot at 10:38 PM on May 28, 2015

you can't just assume that any NASA imagery is public domain (material produced by eg. joint agency missions can have rights restrictions) but much of it is and that's certainly a great place to start.
posted by russm at 12:27 AM on May 29, 2015

I use pixabay. They have some space photos and I've also seen some futuristic graphic design type stuff.
posted by Crystalinne at 12:59 AM on May 29, 2015

Flickr has search functions where you can look for stuff that's free to adapt and use for commercial purposes. Here's what you get when you search for "planetary" but you could probably also get some good results searching for stuff like spaceship, universe, etc.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 1:10 AM on May 29, 2015