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Australia Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia Science News API

API 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": 26595,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "NASA demos autonomous satellite swarm ops",
            "description": "NASA has demonstrated a single brain shared across a swarm of satellites. The technology, called Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy allows individual satellites in a swarm to make decisions while cooperating towards a common goal. The autonomous tech was tested on a physical swarm, as well as a simulated swarm.",
            "content": "NASA demos autonomous satellite swarm ops\nNASA has demonstrated a single brain shared across a swarm of satellites. The technology, called Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy allows individual satellites in a swarm to make decisions while cooperating tow... [2666 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news9live.com/science/nasa-demos-autonomous-satellite-swarm-ops-2817233",
            "image": "https://images.news9live.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/NASA-Autonomous-Satellite-Swarm-.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-02-09T09:07:01Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "News9 LIVE",
                "url": "https://www.news9live.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Chile's celestial crisis: Can dark skies survive development?",
            "description": "Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial development according to astronomers.",
            "content": "RODRIGO GUTIERREZ and FABIAN CAMBERO\nCerro Paranal, Chile\nReuters\nChile’s pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial development according to astronomers.\nAngel Otarola, an astron... [2670 chars]",
            "url": "https://sightmagazine.com.au/news/chiles-celestial-crisis-can-dark-skies-survive-development/",
            "image": "https://sightmagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Chile-Paranal-Observatory-laser-beams-250125010.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-02-09T03:33:02Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Sight Magazine",
                "url": "https://sightmagazine.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Mount Kaputar pink slug: The giant hot-pink mollusk found only on a single, extinct volcano",
            "description": "The 8-inch, bright pink slug has been isolated in a \"sky island\" for millions of years.",
            "content": "Mount Kaputar pink slugs were almost wiped out by wildfires in 2019, but a mass breeding event helped their numbers to bounce back.\nName: Mount Kaputar pink slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar' or Triboniophorus aff. graeffei)\nWhere it lives: Moun... [2523 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/animals/mount-kaputar-pink-slug-the-giant-hot-pink-mollusk-found-only-on-a-single-extinct-volcano",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qWEredzbrbnEWMzN54H6Vd-1200-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-02-08T13:00:00Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Livescience.com",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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