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r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more. Founded 2008 · 5.9M members

5.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 94.8K upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.

16peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.9Mmembers
94.8Kbest post
3Kmost comments
1.3Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 30% 13% 9%
Image 37% Link 30% Gallery 13% Video 9% Text 7% Question 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Image 172 NASA 103 Article 62 Question 51 News 41 ShowMeSunday 40 /r/all 33 Video 30 Creativity 27 Other 14

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What do they get paid?

↑ 94.8K 💬 1.6K image 2026

We've come a long way.

↑ 24.5K 💬 703 image 2020

NASA break room problems are different than most. Taken today @ JSC.

↑ 22.4K 💬 335 image 2018

Unfortunately my parents never sent this otherwise we would be colonizing Mars by now

↑ 20K 💬 326 image 2025

I always thought it was smaller.

↑ 19.2K 💬 389 image 2018

Last look at the Webb Telescope

↑ 18.2K 💬 361 image 2021

The end of NASA

↑ 18.2K 💬 1.5K text 2025

Apollo 17 & its destination in one stunning image

↑ 16.8K 💬 89 image 2024

Saw the other tattoo post and thought I'd share mine in honor of the upcoming launch

↑ 16.8K 💬 336 image 2022

Example of fuel consumption

↑ 16.8K 💬 380 video 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/nasa, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/nasa?
r/nasa describes itself this way: r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more. It was founded in 2008 and has 5.9M members.
How many members does r/nasa have?
r/nasa has about 5.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 94.8K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nasa?
"What do they get paid?" reached 94.8K upvotes and 1.6K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nasa.
What subreddits are similar to r/nasa?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/AccidentalRenaissance, r/shittymoviedetails.
What kind of posts do best on r/nasa?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 30% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nasa?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (10.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (8.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/nasa?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nasa has 11.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 77 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nasa, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.