New Zealand Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from New Zealand with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top science headlines from New Zealand. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=science&country=nz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=nz" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "science", "country": "nz", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "science",
    country: "nz",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "science",
    "country"  => "nz",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=science&country=nz&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 3123,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "04efb7fa1ffc441c8b0bd6ed7c7f93fd",
            "title": "Dragon or dinosaur? Scaly Spyro challenging children to think about genetics",
            "description": "Dragon or dinosaur? Scaly Spyro challenging children to think about genetics",
            "content": "A desert dweller resembling a dinosaur has been captivating curious minds.\nChildren have been relishing the chance to get up close and personal with a bearded dragon called Spyro during the school holidays.\nAs Tūhura Otago Museum draws visitors to it... [2025 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/the-star/dragon-or-dinosaur-scaly-spyro-challenging-children-to-think-about-genetics-fw5cv2q9",
            "image": "https://images.odt.co.nz/view/acePublic/alias/contentid/1u8h3tu6gjy4wb1x4ly/1/star8dragonbeard1-jpg.jpeg?f=3%3A2",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:14:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9371f7f51fd8f7252ed1d882285f716a",
                "name": "ODT",
                "url": "https://www.odt.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3f6490263f6362ecc71440c7ae70bb3c",
            "title": "NASA Outlines Moon Base Objectives, Challenges",
            "description": "NASA's Moon Base plan, announced by Administrator Jared Isaacman in March, kicked off discussion at the two-day Lunar Surface Consortium Oct. 14 in Atlanta",
            "content": "Mark Carreau\nMark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contribution... [601 chars]",
            "url": "https://aviationweek.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-outlines-moon-base-objectives-challenges",
            "image": "https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/AW_favicon_128x128.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:29:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3d31b493490e6983b50319dd6dd14965",
                "name": "Aviation Week",
                "url": "https://aviationweek.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b6961aa23c6e19f6c91511c8ebb4f6ec",
            "title": "Planetary genealogy: Milky Way worlds belong to 1 of 2 ‘families,’ scientists find",
            "description": "Scientists have performed a cosmic genealogy on planetary systems in the Milky Way, finding two distinct families that influence the evolution and fate of these systems.",
            "content": "You can tell a lot about how a child will age by looking at their parents, and it turns out that this could be true for planetary systems, too. Scientists have performed cosmic genealogy on planetary systems in the Milky Way, finding two distinct fam... [3967 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/planetary-genealogy-milky-way-worlds-belong-to-1-of-2-families-scientists-find",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2hhjsHRacj2LrS7kazdKDZ-2000-80.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "024dd4370bda9e6e6791231c2a935d20",
                "name": "Space",
                "url": "https://www.space.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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