
Australia Science News API
Get the live top science headlines from Australia with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Australia Science News APIAPI Demonstration
This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.
GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{ "totalArticles": 1254910, "articles": [ { "id": "2f017c64ddcaff4597ec036e8334fcac", "title": "Betelgeuse’s hidden companion star, Siwarha, discovered after a century of mystery", "description": "A century-old mystery surrounding Betelgeuse is solved as scientists confirm a hidden companion star using Earth-based telescopes", "content": "For over a hundred years, astronomers have puzzled over strange changes in the brightness and motion of Betelgeuse, the closest red supergiant to Earth. Located in the shoulder of Orion, this colossal star has fascinated skywatchers for millennia.\nDe... [7270 chars]", "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/betelgeuses-hidden-companion-star-siwarha-discovered-after-a-century-of-mystery/", "image": "https://www.thebrighterside.news/uploads/2024/04/tbsn-favicon.png?auto=webp", "publishedAt": "2025-07-23T22:07:00Z", "source": { "id": "112bf679e5854b6527eea31fa42dbada", "name": "The Brighter Side of News", "url": "https://www.thebrighterside.news" } }, { "id": "b1abc2e3f8c4d4b220af80816a463705", "title": "Dark Dwarfs at Galaxy's Core May Reveal Dark Matter", "description": "A new type of star-like object called a \"dark dwarf\" that could provide clues into dark matter—one of the universe's biggest mysteries—has been", "content": "University of Hawaiʻi\nA new type of star-like object called a \"dark dwarf\" that could provide clues into dark matter—one of the universe's biggest mysteries—has been proposed by an international group of scientists, led by a researcher from the Unive... [1971 chars]", "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/dark-dwarfs-at-galaxys-core-may-reveal-dark-1502095/", "image": "https://www.hawaii.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/manoa-physics-dark-dwarfs-artistic-300x169.jpg", "publishedAt": "2025-07-23T21:46:00Z", "source": { "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675", "name": "Mirage News", "url": "https://www.miragenews.com" } }, { "id": "52b2b2c890a553943443d7a38fd998ef", "title": "Best-ever map of the human genome reveals 'hidden' regions of DNA", "description": "In a pair of papers, scientists greatly expanded our catalog of known genomic variation among humans.", "content": "Scientists pored over the DNA of more than 1,000 people from all over the world to chart human genomic variation in fine detail.\nTwenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of... [8802 chars]", "url": "https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/best-ever-map-of-the-human-genome-sheds-light-on-jumping-genes-junk-dna-and-more", "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WKwafwcxLWXyZzyjRprfdW.jpg", "publishedAt": "2025-07-23T20:48:58Z", "source": { "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8", "name": "Live Science", "url": "https://www.livescience.com" } } ] }