Space Wallpapers
Original space wallpapers: galaxies, nebulas, planets and the odd astronaut. Every design is free and comes in a phone size and a desktop size.
30 free designs below, each in phone and desktop size
Updated August 2026
Curated by 
Nova Vale
Spiral Galaxy
A spiral galaxy seen straight on, arms of blue and gold dust unwinding from a white core.
Nebula Pillars
Columns of gas and dust standing impossibly tall, with new stars burning through their edges.
Saturn and Rings
Saturn tilted just enough that the rings drop a hard shadow onto its cream cloud bands.
Crater Light
The moon close enough to count craters, each rim throwing a long shadow in raking light.
Milky Way Arch
The Milky Way bending across the whole sky, its dust lane splitting the star band in two.
Comet Pass
A comet caught mid pass, dragging one straight blue ion tail and one paler tail of dust.
Gas Giant
Jupiter filling the frame, ochre belts churning past a red storm wider than our own planet.
Black Sky
Almost pure black with a handful of sharp stars, built for an OLED screen that stays dark.
Event Horizon
Light from behind a black hole bent into a ring, orange against a sky with nothing else in it.
Solar Corona
The sun hidden behind the moon, leaving only a silver corona with streamers reaching out.
Thin Crescent
A sliver of moon with the dark side just readable in earthshine, and black all around it.
Dust Lane
A cloud of cold dust blotting out the stars behind it, edged in the dimmest possible red.
Violet Nebula
Violet and magenta cloud filling every corner, with stars burning through the thinner parts.
Pastel Cosmos
Space redrawn in blush, mint and lilac, light enough that app icons read straight over it.
Teal and Gold
Turquoise gas running into warm gold, the two colours meeting halfway across the frame.
Rose Clouds
Star nurseries in rose and coral, the hottest cores glowing hot pink from somewhere inside.
Neon Horizon
A striped planet parked above a neon grid in magenta and cyan, pure eighties science fiction.
Untethered Drift
One astronaut adrift on a slack tether, a whole planet curved across the visor glass.
Night Launch
A rocket already past the tower, standing on orange fire with the stars waiting above it.
Earth at Night
The curve of Earth from low orbit, coastlines traced in city lights under a thin blue rim.
Two Moons
Red rock spires on a world that is not ours, with two moons hanging at different sizes.
Observatory Ridge
A dome silhouetted on a ridge, sending one thin guide beam up into a very crowded sky.
Retro Space Poster
Flat burnt orange and navy shapes printed like a 1970s travel poster, paper grain and all.
Orbit Lines
Three hairline orbits and two small planets on flat indigo, with everything else left empty.
Friendly Planets
Rounded planets and four point sparkles in flat friendly colour, drawn instead of photographed.
Long Exposure
Made to look like a long exposure through a real telescope, faint halo and resolved stars.
Faceted Cosmos
The cosmos rebuilt out of flat triangles, every fold of gas given a hard geometric edge.
Aurora from Orbit
Green aurora ribbons folding over the night side of a planet, seen from above the airglow.
Planetrise
A ringed planet coming up slowly over the ice, lit so evenly that nothing casts a shadow.
Deep Field
Hundreds of far off galaxies scattered like grains across a sky that is otherwise empty.
Space is the rare wallpaper subject that works on every screen you own: it is mostly dark, so your icons stay readable, and it has real depth, so a phone does not look like it is wearing a flat sheet of colour. These thirty designs are drawn in house rather than pulled from a telescope archive, which means each one is composed for a screen first and an astronomer second.
Start with what is actually in the sky
Seven designs are straightforward objects. Spiral Galaxy and Nebula Pillars are the deep sky pair, one wound tight and one built of standing columns of gas. Closer to home, Saturn and Rings and Gas Giant fill the frame with a single planet, Crater Light puts the moon close enough to count the rims, and Comet Pass and Milky Way Arch are the two with real movement in them.
The dark set, for OLED phones
Five designs stay near black on purpose. Black Sky is the extreme case, almost nothing but stars, and it costs an OLED panel almost no battery because a black pixel is simply switched off. Event Horizon, Solar Corona, Thin Crescent and Dust Lane each add exactly one bright thing to that darkness. If you want the whole screen dark rather than the sky, the dark wallpapers and black wallpapers galleries take it further.
Colour, if black is not your palette
Space does not have to be grim. Pastel Cosmos is the lightest thing here, blush and mint and lilac, and it is the one to pick if you run a light home screen. Violet Nebula and Rose Clouds are the saturated pair, Teal and Gold splits the frame between cool and warm, and Neon Horizon drops a striped planet onto an eighties grid.
Scenes, when you want something happening
Untethered Drift is the astronaut, Night Launch is the rocket, Earth at Night is our own planet with the coastlines lit up, Two Moons is a surface nobody has walked on, and Observatory Ridge is the view from the ground. These five carry the most detail, so they reward a desktop where nothing sits on top of them.
Five ways of drawing the same sky
The last group is about technique. Long Exposure imitates a real telescope frame down to the sensor grain. Retro Space Poster is flat 1970s screen print. Orbit Lines is almost nothing, three hairline circles on indigo. Friendly Planets is openly cartoon, and Faceted Cosmos rebuilds the whole thing out of triangles. Aurora from Orbit, Planetrise and Deep Field close the set on the calm end.
Are these space wallpapers real photos from NASA?
No. Every design here is original art drawn for this site, not a NASA or telescope photograph, so nothing carries a public domain credit or a stock licence. That also means the composition can leave the middle of the frame clear for your clock and icons, which a real astrophoto never does.
Everything is free for your own screens under the licensing policy. For more subject led sets, the rest of the wallpaper themes category holds the butterfly wallpapers and the flower wallpapers, which take the opposite approach: close, warm and full of daylight. Halfway between the two, the sunset sky wallpapers hold the last warm light before the stars arrive.
