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United States Science News API

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

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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 States.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=us&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 38854,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4de844ac24abcb8b2fbb80fd067e2186",
            "title": "Asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon, new data shows",
            "description": "New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.",
            "content": "The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table.\nDiscovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 at first seemed a serious threat to Earth, with s... [8639 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/science/2024-yr4-moon-webb",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/asteroid-artist-s-impression-20250724201010839.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T16:41:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bdd1327777299c3d85e58ba0fa7b545e",
            "title": "Los astrónomos no dan crédito a lo que descubren tras crear un mapa del campo magnético de la Vía Láctea",
            "description": "Un mapa del campo magnético de la Vía Lactea revela una inversión diagonal inesperada en el brazo de Sagitario.",
            "content": "Un nuevo mapa del campo magnético de la Vía Láctea ha dejado a los astrónomos sin palabras tras revelar un detalle inesperado en la estructura de la galaxia. El hallazgo surge de un conjunto de datos sin precedentes que permite observar cómo se organ... [3202 chars]",
            "url": "https://okdiario.com/ciencia/astronomos-no-dan-credito-lo-que-descubren-crear-mapa-del-campo-magnetico-via-lactea-16345370",
            "image": "https://okdiario.com/img/2026/03/03/vialactea.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T14:00:57Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "1d09b1e42f599e88d21bdf76817c6406",
                "name": "OkDiario",
                "url": "https://okdiario.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "97bae9775dc2e6103a9c1fb8cc54c90e",
            "title": "China Covered a Massive Desert with Solar Panels for Clean Energy, but the Land Began to Evolve",
            "description": "Inside China’s Qinghai solar mega-project, researchers discovered that photovoltaic panels are quietly reshaping the desert environment beneath them.",
            "content": "Rows of dark photovoltaic panels stretch across a remote plateau in western China, covering ground that once appeared almost completely barren. The site lies in Talatan Desert in Qinghai Province, where harsh sunlight, thin air, and limited rainfall ... [7475 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/china-desert-solar-farm-changing-ecosystem-beneath-panels/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Something-unusual-is-happening-beneath-Chinas-massive-desert-solar-panels-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T12:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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