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": 16836,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f3146f9da12f58eb3e0294b128001b9e",
            "title": "Tickled Apes Reveal the Rhythmic Roots of Laughter",
            "description": "A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.",
            "content": "Humor is deeply personal. A punchline or a pratfall that leaves one person doubled over in delight might elicit blank stares from another. But laughter is universal, an innate instinct shared by humans everywhere.\nAnd not just humans. Chimps chuckle,... [1012 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/science/evolution-laughter-apes.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/25/multimedia/25SCI-APE-LAUGHTER-qjlb/25SCI-APE-LAUGHTER-qjlb-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T15:00:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fbfedd5ecac51a5f2ec74089d0fd6804",
            "title": "Millions of stars light up largest and most detailed shot of Milky Way’s centre",
            "description": "The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery",
            "content": "The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been captured by a space telescope designed to reveal the mysterious dark forces that shape the universe.\nAstronomers used the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope to ca... [3004 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/24/stars-galactic-bulge-milky-way-euclid-telescope",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92882d1169ede4ad02b687f83fe414329066327a/343_0_2700_2160/master/2700.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=e0c6e04af22b8cfe4d6d33fe063680d2",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T17:29:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3cb5b8e71c100ea5c2342f3927fd22c3",
            "title": "Asteroid zooming past Earth on Saturday visible to stargazers",
            "description": "A large asteroid that will zoom harmlessly past Earth on Saturday will be visible to stargazers using a small telescope or large binoculars, the European Space Agency announced Wednesday.",
            "content": "A large asteroid that will zoom harmlessly past Earth on Saturday will be visible to stargazers using a small telescope or large binoculars, the European Space Agency announced Wednesday.\nThe asteroid will come within 2,560,000 kilometers (1,590,000 ... [1139 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-06-asteroid-earth-saturday-visible-stargazers.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2018/asteroid.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T15:10:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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