PBS Space Time YouTube Stats

@pbsspacetime · Science & Education · Updated Nov 10, 2026

PBS Space Time channel overview

PBS Space Time (@pbsspacetime) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2015. It has 3.5M subscribers and 568M total views across 465 videos, an average of 1.2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 828K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.1M views. Over the last 12 months, PBS Space Time published 38 videos (32% Shorts), and 1 of them (3%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does PBS Space Time make?

Returbe estimates PBS Space Time's YouTube ad revenue at $11K – $39K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.26 to $11.16, typically $6.05, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

PBS Space Time publishes about 10.9 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (74% of uploads), usually around 20:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 9, 2026.

PBS Space Time's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are PBS Space Time's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Is There Only ONE Electron In the Universe?1.5M views · Oct 15, 20269.6× typical views
• JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole Star2.8M views · Aug 27, 20262.6× typical views
• So You Want to Understand Quantum Mechanics…2.4M views · Sep 10, 20262.2× typical views
• We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang.2.3M views · May 21, 20262.1× typical views
• The Universe May Have Just Revealed the True Nature of Empty Space1.9M views · Sep 24, 20261.7× typical views
• What If You Travel To The Edge of The Universe?255K views · Sep 28, 20261.7× typical views
• The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It?1.8M views · Nov 13, 20251.6× typical views
• Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!1.8M views · Nov 25, 20251.6× typical views

Latest videos

7 of PBS Space Time's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• How Black Holes EAT Entire Galaxies80K views · Nov 9, 20260.5× typical views
• So You Want To Understand Black Holes...390K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• The Hidden Structure of The Universe140K views · Nov 4, 20260.9× typical views
• Can We Turn The Solar System Into A Spaceship?236K views · Nov 2, 20261.5× typical views
• String Theory Explained In Two Minutes!202K views · Oct 29, 20261.3× typical views
• We Found Galaxies Too OLD For The Universe!189K views · Oct 26, 20261.2× typical views
• Ghost Particles Are Exposing Hidden Black Holes. They Just Won a Nobel Prize.979K views · Oct 22, 20260.9× typical views
• How Many Times Can Space Be Divided?140K views · Oct 21, 20260.9× typical views
• There Are 1 Quadrillion Stars Behind This Grain of Sand111K views · Oct 19, 20260.7× typical views
• Is There Only ONE Electron In the Universe?1.5M views · Oct 15, 20269.6× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.3K videos from 671 channels in this niche. 12.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (54K subs, best video 271.5×), MemeBlaze HFY (1.4K subs, best video 47.5×), ClipazoPodcast (30K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.6K subs, best video 486.2×), Live Wild (1K subs, best video 72×), Female Psychology | Mia Khalifa (8.1K subs, best video 88×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with PBS Space Time or YouTube.