Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Space YouTube outliers
9,290 Space videos from 26 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 656 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
26
Videos scored
9,290
Reach 2x or more
25.9%
5x or more 8.3% · 10x or more 3.5%
Leaderboard pool
656
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Launch schedules and mission milestones give Space a calendar that nothing else on this list shares, and demand concentrates hard around them. Between events the niche runs on explanation and speculation, which accumulates steadily from search and keeps medians respectable. Outliers therefore cluster in two places: the hours around a notable mission, and the videos that answer a question people have had since childhood. Production costs can be low because so much footage and imagery is public, which keeps the field open to small channels with a good script. Read the top rows against the launch calendar first, then separate the event coverage from the explainers, because the explainers are the ones a smaller channel can realistically compete for.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naked Science | 9.4M | 10.4K | 1,043x | ||
| 2 | VideoFromSpace | 1.1M | 14.8K | 82x | ||
| 3 | Naked Science | 650K | 10.4K | 72x | ||
| 4 | VideoFromSpace | 989K | 14.8K | 61x | ||
| 5 | CNBC | 1.5M | 51.3K | 46x | ||
| 6 | Anton Petrov | 1.9M | 118K | 29x | ||
| 7 | The Space Race | 7M | 268K | 27x | ||
| 8 | CNBC | 519K | 51.3K | 24x | ||
| 9 | Late Science | 258K | 10.5K | 20x | ||
| 10 | The Space Race | 5.2M | 268K | 20x |
Showing the top 10 of 656 outliers in Space (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Space ranking is built
- Every Space video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 9,290 videos from 26 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 656 Space videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Space channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 25.9% of scored Space videos reach 2x or more, 8.3% reach 5x and 3.5% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
Do launches explain most of the big numbers here?
A large share of them. A notable mission concentrates demand into hours, and whoever is publishing then collects it across the whole niche at once. Check each row's date against the schedule before concluding that the format was responsible for the result you are looking at.
Can a small channel compete when the footage is free to everybody?
That is exactly why it can. Public imagery removes the production advantage and leaves the script, the question and the pacing to decide the outcome. Plenty of rows on lists like this belong to channels with no budget and a much better explanation than their larger competitors managed.
Why do speculative videos outperform factual ones?
Because they contain a question rather than a summary. A video about what something would be like, or about what happens next, gives the viewer a reason to stay until the end. Factual explainers earn more steadily from search but they rarely produce the same spike.
How many Space videos are behind this leaderboard?
9,290 scored Space videos from 26 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 656 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Space leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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