NASA Open APIs
NASA Open APIs is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's unified, public developer portal exposing space, earth science, planetary, heliophysics, and bioscience datasets at api.nasa.gov. A single API key issued through api.data.gov authenticates the family of APIs including APOD, Asteroids NeoWs, DONKI, Earth, EONET, EPIC, Exoplanet Archive, InSight, Mars Rover Photos, NASA Image and Video Library, TechPort, TechTransfer, SSD/CNEOS, Satellite Situation Center, GeneLab, TLE, and the Vesta/Moon/Mars Trek WMTS services. Together with 617+ open-source repositories on github.com/nasa they represent one of the most comprehensive open federal API surfaces in the world. As a US federal civilian agency NASA's data and software products are generally in the public domain, supporting a global ecosystem of researchers, educators, developers, and citizen scientists.
APIs
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
One of the most popular NASA websites, exposed as a JSON API. Returns the picture (or video) of the day with title, explanation, image URL, HD URL, optional copyright, and media...
NASA Asteroids NeoWs (Near Earth Object Web Service)
RESTful web service for near earth Asteroid information. Lets you search for asteroids by closest approach date, lookup a specific asteroid by NASA JPL small body ID, and browse...
NASA DONKI Space Weather API
Space Weather Database Of Notifications, Knowledge, Information (DONKI) — a comprehensive on-line tool for space weather forecasters, scientists, and the general public. Exposes...
NASA Earth Imagery API
Unlock the significant public investment in earth observation data. Returns Landsat 8 imagery for a given latitude/longitude and date plus assets/metadata. Useful for deforestat...
NASA EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker)
Continuously updated, curated source of natural events occurring on Earth — wildfires, severe storms, volcanoes, sea/lake ice, drought, dust/haze, earthquakes, floods, landslide...
NASA EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera)
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument aboard the DSCOVR satellite provides full-disc imagery of the Earth. Returns natural and enhanced color image metadata w...
NASA Exoplanet Archive API
Programmatic access to NASA's Exoplanet Archive — confirmed planets, planetary candidates, Kepler/K2/TESS objects of interest, microlensing events, and direct imaging detections...
NASA InSight Mars Weather Service API
Per-Sol summary data for each of the last seven available Sols (Martian days) of weather at Elysium Planitia, measured by the InSight lander. Reports atmospheric temperature, wi...
NASA Mars Rover Photos API
Image data gathered by NASA's Curiosity, Opportunity, Spirit, and Perseverance rovers on Mars. Each photo can be queried by Earth date or Martian sol with optional camera filter...
NASA Image and Video Library API
API to access the NASA Image and Video Library at images.nasa.gov. Supports searching the Library, retrieving asset manifests, metadata, captions, and resolving rich-text URLs. ...
NASA TechTransfer API
Structured, searchable developer access to NASA's patents, software, and Spinoff publications. Patents are part of the NASA Technology Transfer Program with the goal of bringing...
NASA SSD/CNEOS API
Solar System Dynamics and Center for Near-Earth Object Studies APIs at JPL. Includes CAD (close-approach data), SBDB (small body database lookup and query), Sentry (impact risk)...
NASA TechPort API
API to make NASA technology project data available in a machine-readable format. Returns project title, description, benefits, status, dates, organizations, technology areas, an...
NASA TLE API (Two-Line Element Set)
Two-line element set (TLE) data for earth-orbiting objects at a given point in time. Hosted in partnership outside api.nasa.gov but listed in the NASA Open APIs catalog. Returns...
NASA Satellite Situation Center API
System to cast geocentric spacecraft location information into a framework of (empirical) geophysical regions and mappings of point locations along the spacecraft trajectory to/...
NASA GeneLab Search API
Programmatic interface for GeneLab's public data repository — space biology omics datasets (genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, metagenomic) for organisms studied i...
NASA Vesta/Moon/Mars Trek WMTS
A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for the Vesta, Moon, and Mars Trek imagery projects. Standardized OGC WMTS tiles consumable by Leaflet, OpenLayers, ArcGIS, and QGIS for planetary ...