
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": 1340922, "articles": [ { "id": "f0888562d4109d132479f7f69062b50d", "title": "Gaia Reveals New Map of Stellar Life Cycle", "description": "One of the best places to study stars is inside \"open clusters\", which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound", "content": "One of the best places to study stars is inside \"open clusters\", which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity.\nOpen clusters act as laboratories, showing how stars of different masses an... [3733 chars]", "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/gaia-reveals-new-map-of-stellar-life-cycle-1514133/", "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=cdn.pixabay.com%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F11%2F29%2F05%2F45%2Fastronomy-1867616_960_720.jpg", "publishedAt": "2025-08-13T06:36:00Z", "source": { "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675", "name": "Mirage News", "url": "https://www.miragenews.com" } }, { "id": "6a16163dc43b4d3d359740f7642f8480", "title": "Out of this world: A space-age adventure lands in Adelaide", "description": "Explore all the cool stuff from back in the Space Age at a new exhibition Out of This World: Australia in the space age at the State Library of South Australia.", "content": "This exhibition, created by the National Archives of Australia, takes you back in time to the 1950s, 60s and 70s – when space was the place, and Aussies were dreaming big! From science and satellites to space-themed TV shows and groovy designs, Out o... [1537 chars]", "url": "https://kiddomag.com.au/do/out-of-this-world-a-space-age-adventure-lands-in-adelaide/", "image": "https://kiddomag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/space-age-exhibition.png", "publishedAt": "2025-08-13T04:04:19Z", "source": { "id": "ae25702d228f0fa4229e344a79db3055", "name": "KIDDO Mag", "url": "https://kiddomag.com.au" } }, { "id": "0a3eaa672ca5b6c5826a3c504d301ea1", "title": "Victorian fossil leads to discovery of new species of ancient baleen whale", "description": "A 25-million-year-old skull has led researchers to discover a new species of tiny whale, filling an evolutionary gap for humpback and blue whales.", "content": "Researchers have hailed the discovery of an ancient whale species in Australia's south-east as a milestone in marine science.\nFound near Jan Juc on Victoria's Surf Coast in 2019, the fossil of a baleen whale has today been described as the Janjucetus... [3407 chars]", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-13/victorian-researchers-discover-new-species-of-ancient-whale/105646740", "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/cb79e4257dd4528814f69bd9ec736bb1?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2138&cropW=3800&xPos=0&yPos=354&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic", "publishedAt": "2025-08-13T03:49:54Z", "source": { "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74", "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au" } } ] }