# The Space Race: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, The Space Race has 909,000 subscribers, 221,850,661 total views, and 483 videos. It ranks #81,829 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Space Race](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Space Race is “Jupiter isn't a planet”, a long-form video published Oct 24, 2026.
- These are The Space Race’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jan 25, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 (40 long-form videos and 8 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 579,644. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “What NASA Found on Io” (5,393,738 views, Feb 14, 2026). Least viewed: “Is this an Alien Invasion?” (11,759 views, Sep 27, 2026).
- Median length: 15:56 for 40 long-form videos; 1:27 for 8 Shorts.
- In this sample, The Space Race’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 8 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Jupiter isn't a planet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/_I3KAaI__-M/) | 2026-10-24 | Long-form | 515,538 | 16:19 | 0.8x |
| [The Real Reason Starship Has 33 Engines](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/FX6GYpj-PnA/) | 2026-10-17 | Long-form | 1,625,149 | 16:43 | 1.4x |
| [How Does Starlink Actually Work?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/6Tn51YU52n4/) | 2026-10-11 | Short | 142,514 | 1:39 | - |
| [Why is everyone going to this hole in the Moon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/qQAM7FvLVio/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 2,698,870 | 20:33 | 2.59x |
| [Why Does SpaceX Need So Many Satellites?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/1HAAgbMntgQ/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 45,476 | 1:04 | - |
| [What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's FOURTEENTH Starship Test Flight!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/G6TJ14AKhME/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 1,307,005 | 14:39 | 1.56x |
| [Is this an Alien Invasion?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/dFMld-S_KM4/) | 2026-09-27 | Short | 11,759 | 0:42 | - |
| [Something Weird Is Happening On Europa](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/ASEchqxT_5I/) | 2026-09-26 | Long-form | 4,671,834 | 14:51 | 4.6x |
| [The First Photo of The Moon Was a Lie!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/s3qKKsxfudY/) | 2026-09-23 | Short | 443,865 | 2:10 | 1.93x |
| [Elon Musk Reveals Plan To Own The Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/XkT27YIBgAs/) | 2026-09-20 | Short | 45,121 | 0:47 | - |
| [The Real Reason SpaceX Is Building The Starship](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/WU0Es4XICOs/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 819,328 | 15:43 | 0.95x |
| [Apollo 11 Wasn't Alone On The Moon!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/0qlJP_QgBuw/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 236,726 | 1:28 | - |
| [How Starlink Actually Works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/DW-aL_MiUz4/) | 2026-09-12 | Long-form | 3,287,991 | 18:36 | 4.35x |
| [The Soviets Stole The Camera Used To Take The First Photo Of The Moon!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/gQ17VbYOMiw/) | 2026-09-09 | Short | 222,210 | 1:31 | - |
| [The Real Reason SpaceX Chose Louisiana](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/eYhqBVXOVz0/) | 2026-09-05 | Long-form | 1,598,146 | 14:32 | 2.11x |
| [Why Did The First Lunar Probe Have A Bomb Attached to it?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/pwSJFlpt6nA/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 524,158 | 1:26 | - |
| [Why The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Will Break Reality](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/AhBlFei369g/) | 2026-08-29 | Long-form | 900,060 | 16:09 | 1.57x |
| [All 8 Artemis Mission's Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/aw9ENIAqkA8/) | 2026-08-22 | Long-form | 1,622,192 | 24:41 | 3.21x |
| [Apollo 11 Wasn't Alone on the Moon...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/z_z8lvZ76Yw/) | 2026-08-15 | Long-form | 612,460 | 24:59 | 1.45x |
| [What Is Actually Happening With China's Moon Base](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/RvQ6zg9gScc/) | 2026-08-08 | Long-form | 474,957 | 13:02 | 1.26x |
| [Inside SpaceX's $3 Billion Starfactory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/RIh2UZH7hYA/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 1,129,107 | 17:49 | 3.26x |
| [What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's THIRTEENTH Starship Test Flight!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/jVY_aPgCfAw/) | 2026-07-25 | Long-form | 323,510 | 10:40 | 0.94x |
| [What NASA Found Outside Our Galaxy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/6wLcQ3yzZ_c/) | 2026-07-18 | Long-form | 62,504 | 12:50 | - |
| [What Is The Actual Time It Takes To Reach Every Planet In The Solar System?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/GVdFPp1Vh3E/) | 2026-07-11 | Long-form | 535,848 | 23:13 | 1.42x |
| [We Need to Talk About Uranus](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/0lnQW47gFtI/) | 2026-07-04 | Long-form | 1,081,705 | 16:21 | 2.87x |
| [What NASA Found on Enceladus](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/3j3wLpojTiM/) | 2026-06-27 | Long-form | 226,765 | 16:34 | 0.6x |
| [What Everyone Gets Wrong About Space Suits](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/5mbL-cERnSQ/) | 2026-06-20 | Long-form | 74,935 | 17:54 | - |
| [Why The Space Economy Will Make Trillionaires](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/rf6BkzZQN2Q/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 368,387 | 12:41 | 0.57x |
| [NASA's New Plan to Take Over The Moon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/CTo6cQDE8Y8/) | 2026-06-06 | Long-form | 384,483 | 19:57 | - |
| [50 Years Later, NASA's Mystery on Mars is Still Unsolved](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/EZU7xvHNMw8/) | 2026-05-30 | Long-form | 162,180 | 16:50 | - |
| [What Exactly Happened On SpaceX's TWELFTH Starship Test Flight!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/QLM7vme6NWk/) | 2026-05-23 | Long-form | 647,263 | 16:11 | 0.69x |
| [This Engine Will Reinvent Space Travel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/4K8zt8NzlVo/) | 2026-05-16 | Long-form | 923,272 | 15:44 | 0.75x |
| [Why Mercury is the hardest planet to reach](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/vQ6Em_3W4-Y/) | 2026-05-09 | Long-form | 260,058 | 15:26 | - |
| [What Life Inside the SpaceX Star Station Will Be Like](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/Vrn5KEfXHW8/) | 2026-05-02 | Long-form | 652,019 | 13:18 | - |
| [NASA is Launching a Nuclear Rocket to Mars](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/orzOG0KoCwE/) | 2026-04-26 | Long-form | 951,963 | 15:02 | 0.52x |
| [What Will Actually Happen on Artemis 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/OqpFjr8au2E/) | 2026-04-18 | Long-form | 1,495,407 | 12:58 | 0.71x |
| [What Exactly Happened on Artemis 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/4N3GJnDiqCU/) | 2026-04-11 | Long-form | 3,216,042 | 17:52 | 1.52x |
| [How NASA Will Build The Artemis Moon Base](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/zNv7o8wEJdc/) | 2026-04-04 | Long-form | 3,947,957 | 14:02 | 2.14x |
| [What is Actually Happening on Artemis 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/LV3pAQXVciE/) | 2026-03-28 | Long-form | 2,904,011 | 21:07 | 2.65x |
| [What NASA Found Inside The Sun](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/jaa4-pArUwM/) | 2026-03-21 | Long-form | 314,335 | 11:39 | 0.73x |
| [What NASA Found on Neptune](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/yjnLNzqTWng/) | 2026-03-14 | Long-form | 2,046,042 | 13:01 | 1.86x |
| [How SpaceX Will Build a City on The Moon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/5fEFuo5wuZo/) | 2026-03-07 | Long-form | 1,648,688 | 13:43 | 2.05x |
| [This is the Asteroid You Should Actually Be Worried About...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/x5TGqHumF70/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 221,896 | 17:36 | 0.51x |
| [Saturn Is The Scariest Planet In Our Solar System](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/PMFE_I6xseA/) | 2026-02-21 | Long-form | 2,181,251 | 13:23 | 2.71x |
| [What NASA Found on Io](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/s0mNlXGd2Bc/) | 2026-02-14 | Long-form | 5,393,738 | 12:05 | 12.47x |
| [How NASA Changed Everything We Know About Mars](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/VeQ0V6JPIOg/) | 2026-02-07 | Long-form | 318,293 | 17:23 | 1.09x |
| [What India Found on The Moon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/BR2ZZXjpeqQ/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 546,827 | 13:19 | 1.07x |
| [How NASA Planned To Build The First Mars Colony](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thespaceraceyt/videos/HLWbpT6oAHk/) | 2026-01-25 | Long-form | 249,256 | 21:01 | - |

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