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": 16412,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1bf17a246d3a77335a6681e807be7b69",
            "title": "In 1908 Something Exploded Over Siberia With the Force of Hundreds of Hiroshima Bombs, Flattening 2,000 Square Kilometres of Forest and Leaving No Crater",
            "description": "The sky split open. The forest exploded. Millions of trees fell in a single instant. But when scientists finally reached the blast site, one thing was missing that shouldn't be.",
            "content": "On the morning of 30 June 1908, a fireball lit the sky above the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia. An eyewitness, quoted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, described the moment: “the sky split in two and fire appeared high... [5654 chars]",
            "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com/tunguska-event-1908-explosion-no-crater/",
            "image": "https://indiandefencereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/something-blew-up-over-russia-with-no-impact-site-left-behind-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T10:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "61a45608aab04b1a644e763fac18ed49",
                "name": "Indian Defence Review",
                "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1ec5cfffaeaacb7831f3e56f2fac3977",
            "title": "Nasa unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base",
            "description": "Nasa plans to send hopping drones and roving vehicles to the Moon as part of plans for a permanent Moon base.",
            "content": "Nasa has released details of robotic landers, hopping drones and vehicles it aims to send to the Moon as part of US plans to build a lunar base.\nAmazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin is one of several companies picked to build the mac... [1824 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39228nxyr4o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/a099/live/f5f41ba0-5944-11f1-af8d-3f91c4027c92.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T20:25:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "324e4247311f326bf33b9ec907051df1",
            "title": "Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun",
            "description": "Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun",
            "content": "Hengefinder is an app that, given times and places, can help you experience \"stunning moments when the sun or moon aligns perfectly with city streets and buildings.\"\nA \"henge\" is when the sun or moon is perfectly framed by a street or appears to sit ... [1576 chars]",
            "url": "https://boingboing.net/2026/05/26/hengefinder-finds-streets-that-perfectly-frame-the-setting-sun.html",
            "image": "https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/fbrfg/favicon-32x32.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T16:57:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "353ecd6af4b79c2e854d07bfe9ace89a",
                "name": "Boing Boing",
                "url": "https://boingboing.net"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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