United Kingdom Science News API

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

Get API key for the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 15452,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d233da2274ef340984bc9189900ed099",
            "title": "A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to 'Restore Pluto to a Planet,' and NASA's chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected",
            "description": "A fourth grader's handwritten note reached the top of NASA. The administrator's four word reply changed the conversation overnight.",
            "content": "Kaela Polkinghorn sat in the darkened dome theater of Tampa’s Museum of Science and Innovation and watched eight planets huddle cozily around the sun. Pluto was not included in the group hug. The fourth grader watched the small icy world sit alone in... [4464 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/nasa-chief-responds-girl-letter-pluto-planet/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NASA-chief-gave-a-Tampa-fourth-grader-four-words-about-Pluto-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T11:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2087e9231b37e8bf0b706d2f49c3362e",
            "title": "Leicester team finds ancient freshened water under ocean floor",
            "description": "Scientists from the University of Leicester joined the international research expedition.",
            "content": "A team of geoscientists from Leicester has helped confirm the existence of \"ancient\" freshened water sealed beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor.\nThe group from the University of Leicester joined an international crew on the science vessel L/B Robert off... [1477 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv1104ezjpo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/ea9c/live/325ecff0-38b0-11f1-90eb-854a36c38eaa.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T05:49:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "551d7dfed305b5a8261b589247994c03",
            "title": "There’s a new theory about what helped form one of America’s grandest natural wonders",
            "description": "The key to solving a nearly 7 billion-year-old geological mystery could be microscopic",
            "content": "Northern Arizona’s Grand Canyon is one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders, stretching along 277 miles of the 1,450-mile Colorado River.\nScientists have long understood that the canyon, which has over four million visitors from around the g... [3700 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/grand-canyon-colorado-river-arizona-study-b2959844.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/04/17/15/13/GettyImages-2201330451.jpeg?trim=0,8,0,7&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T16:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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