Canada Science News API

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

Get API key for the Canada 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 Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 148954,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0492ab1f083033ab591406fe8af2bc0e",
            "title": "Large asteroid will hurl past Earth this weekend",
            "description": "A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger.",
            "content": "NEW YORK — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger.\nThe space rock — 1997 NC1 — makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 million kilometres), according to the Eur... [1145 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/06/26/a-large-harmless-asteroid-will-zip-past-earth-this-weekend/",
            "image": "https://www.cp24.com/resizer/v2/HS5VGCRKEPY3ASUQASEN6MXXOY.jpg?smart=true&auth=d78edf3b7a70a7fbe2fa9c21bffee1e4f6517604f9f8c8974dbd58b910d1cf49&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T19:13:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7dd7268139219ad1376ef22df3730d7e",
                "name": "CP24",
                "url": "https://www.cp24.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "16d01a757e18a3a7d5d3295b67794ce0",
            "title": "Une course contre la montre pour une opération de sauvetage inédite dans l'espace",
            "description": "Alors que le télescope spatial Swift est menacé par une lente chute vers la Terre, une mission privée tentera une opération inédite afin de rehausser son...",
            "content": "Une perte d'altitude liée au Soleil\nSwift est cependant victime d'un phénomène bien connu des ingénieurs spatiaux : le freinage atmosphérique. Lancé à 600 kilomètres d'altitude, en orbite basse, le télescope spatial est encore au contact l'atmosphère... [4116 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lalibre.be/planete/sciences-espace/2026/06/26/une-course-contre-la-montre-pour-une-operation-de-sauvetage-inedite-dans-lespace-2QZJAW6XEBBINIQG7Q5FHOGYOY/",
            "image": "https://www.lalibre.be/resizer/v2/PJYO6Q6WNJCB7ATVNK6CLIGHIY.jpg?auth=6d9e17f8533908b55e5d05ad5253dfbf9da5e3fb7b0d765bbdc42291892c640c&width=1200&height=630&quality=85&focal=2673%2C1782",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T17:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "988a0157162959e86c8486c4feee784f",
                "name": "La Libre.be",
                "url": "https://www.lalibre.be"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "93fb163bdd32c59d4d2633d97989cb6d",
            "title": "Detached but Not Alone",
            "description": "The galaxy seems to be full of free-range Neptunes, but a closer look reveals some complicated family dynamics in planetary systems.",
            "content": "Microlensing surveys have discovered plenty of regular exoplanets, but more surprisingly, they’ve also turned up many solo Neptunes with no star nearby. New research suggests that first impressions might be deceiving, however, and that at least some ... [3585 chars]",
            "url": "https://aasnova.org/2026/06/26/detached-but-not-alone/",
            "image": "https://aasnova.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/featured-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T16:00:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b40935bfc5344aa740ca6e93630b3588",
                "name": "AAS Nova",
                "url": "https://aasnova.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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