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": 145500,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e4096cf878a5ac86efeb317722ad56c3",
            "title": "Patagonia’s southern forests light up with fall colors",
            "description": "A NASA satellite image shows autumn colors spreading across Patagonia as southern forests briefly reshape the landscape.",
            "content": "Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features a region of Patagonia characterized by bold natural contrasts.\nSnow-covered mountains, dry plains, and glacial lakes create a landscape that is defined by light and muted colors.\nBut for a... [4827 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/image/patagonias-southern-forests-light-up-with-fall-colors/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/04/28100352/Patagonia-fall-colors.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:41:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0f5e84d40cf0eeb3532e8d9fdec7dfb8",
            "title": "Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped.",
            "description": "Opinion | Drilling in the two mile buffer zone of Pe' Sla, in the He Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota, shows even sacred lands protected by the U.S. government are not safe from the threat of destruction — and it should ring alarm bells everywhere.",
            "content": "Drilling has begun at Pe' Sla, a sacred site in South Dakota, following the U.S. Forest Service's decision to permit exploratory sites — despite the land falling under federal protection. Authorizing mining activity in this sacred place is a direct a... [6565 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/drilling-has-begun-at-our-sacred-site-pe-sla-setting-a-dangerous-precedent-for-indigenous-lands-across-the-country-it-must-be-stopped-opinion",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4KDFtNmY7PXofERs7pqXyM-2560-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:25:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8",
                "name": "Live Science",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "aadb0c5706434f51254dcb79d1822bec",
            "title": "NASA Telescope Data Reveals More Than 10,000 New Planets Candidates in a Single Sweep",
            "description": "Scientists revisited old telescope archives expecting minor updates. What they found instead could shift the boundaries of known space.",
            "content": "A reanalysis of early data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) telescope has uncovered more than 11,000 candidate exoplanets, marking the largest single batch ever identified. The discovery significantly expands the known pool of... [3012 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/nasa-telescope-data-reveals-10000-planets/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NASA-Telescope-Data-Reveals-More-Than-10000-New-Planet-Candidates-in-a-Single-Sweep-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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