Pictures from the music video of Drag Me Down, One Direction's new single, were leaked onto Twitter earlier last week, and fans are saying it may be one of the boy band's best videos to date.

The pictures that sent social media into a frenzy show the band in NASA space suits and Harry Stiles holding a rainbow flag amongst other images.

The girl who posted the pictures hinted that the video would be released within the next 12 hours, but subsequently deleted that Tweet and replaced it with a Tweet statingonly that the video would be out soon.

The band's first post-Zayn Malik video was indeed released a few hours later, and it was definitely out of this world.

The band actually teamed up with NASA, and the spacesuits Harry Syles, 21, Liam Payne, 21, Louis Tomlinson, 23, and Niall Horan, 21, are wearing in the video are the real deal.

Ben Winston, One Direction's music video director, worked with the boys to produce a literal translation of the lyrics.

The video uses some clever word play -they sing "Nobody can drag me down," in Houston's NASA Space Center ... where there are literally no-gravity areas.

Drag Me Down, One Direction's first single since Malik left the band in March this year, was released onto airwaves on 31^st July.

It features a very different sound from the bands previous work, "a more mature One Direction sound," according to the song's official release.

There has been some speculation as to whether the song was written about Malik, but there has been no hint from the boys as to whether this may or may not be.