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r/SpaceNews

6.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 406 upvotes, which works out to 61 per 1,000 members.

61peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.7Kmembers
406best post
35most comments
35posts 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.

86% 9%
Link 86% Image 9% Video 6%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Hundreds of NASA Employees Condemn Trump Administration Cuts in Public Letter

↑ 406 💬 2 link 2025

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Told His Daughters Where His Will Is Before Historic Mission, Then They Hid A Surprise In His Bag

↑ 180 💬 8 link 2026

3I/ATLAS Trajectory: Harvard Scientist Claims Object Is Sending Spy 'Satellites'

↑ 150 💬 35 link 2025

The International Space Station Is Retiring: Meet the Private Space Stations That Will Replace It

↑ 147 💬 10 link 2026

JWST Spots Rare 40-Minute Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole, Surprising Astronomers

↑ 133 💬 2 link 2025

The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day

↑ 123 💬 2 link 2025

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleb…

↑ 115 💬 1 link 2025

Dark matter, if it exists, has a very limited lifetime

↑ 105 💬 7 link 2025

Proposed 2026 NASA budget slashes $6 billion, mostly from science programs

↑ 104 💬 4 link 2025

Iran launches it's heaviest ever space payload into orbit

↑ 70 💬 5 video 2024

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/SpaceNews, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.