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": 148640,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6e6a99dded020666fc4c0de351506450",
            "title": "Watch an asteroid the size of a blue whale hurtle towards Earth live online May 18",
            "description": "Watch a newly discovered asteroid pass just 0.237% of the Earth-moon distance from our planet on May 18, with this livestream.",
            "content": "A newly discovered asteroid the size of an adult blue whale is set to fly past Earth on May 18 at 24% of the average Earth-moon distance, and you can watch the event unfold in real time from the comfort of your home with this Virtual Telescope Projec... [1323 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/watch-an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-blue-whale-hurtle-towards-earth-live-online-may-18",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JeBbTAaFzd255GM6kBJoaJ-1920-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T13:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "024dd4370bda9e6e6791231c2a935d20",
                "name": "Space",
                "url": "https://www.space.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "312e8065b64fd534a368e393245e7565",
            "title": "There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting",
            "description": "NASA's sonification program turns electromagnetic data from spacecraft into audio you can actually hear — and the Saturn recordings expose something strange about how human ears process the universe.",
            "content": "Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into something a human ear could parse. The Saturn file — a tr... [8860 chars]",
            "url": "https://spacedaily.com/j-there-is-no-sound-in-space-but-nasa-records-the-electromagnetic-vibrations-of-planets-and-converts-them-to-audio-and-saturn-sounds-genuinely-haunting/",
            "image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/j-there-is-no-sound-in-space-but-nasa-records-the-.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T12:30:58Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
                "name": "Space Daily",
                "url": "https://spacedaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "74e639563c87227fdcf531ee0e94e195",
            "title": "The light hitting your eyes from the sun right now left its surface 8 minutes ago - but the energy behind it may have spent roughly 100,000 years fighting its way out from the core",
            "description": "The eight minutes from sun to eye is the headline figure, but the photon that landed on your retina spent most of its existence trapped in a dense interior where it could only travel a fraction of a centimeter before colliding with the next nucleus.",
            "content": "The sunlight hitting your eyes right now left the sun’s surface about eight minutes ago. That part is the easy clock to understand: light crosses the roughly 93 million miles between the sun and Earth at about 186,000 miles per second.\nThe harder clo... [9774 chars]",
            "url": "https://spacedaily.com/j-the-light-hitting-your-eyes-from-the-sun-right-now-left-its-surface-8-minutes-ago-but-it-took-roughly-100000-years-to-travel-from-the-suns-core-to-its-surface-before-that/",
            "image": "https://spacedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/j-the-light-hitting-your-eyes-from-the-sun-right-n.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T12:19:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e78ce7d66fa4cc7a845a221fd1505b06",
                "name": "Space Daily",
                "url": "https://spacedaily.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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