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Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 17 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

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Four ways to pull newscientist.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from newscientist.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.newscientist.com&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=www.newscientist.com&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=www.newscientist.com&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.newscientist.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist headlines come back as JSON.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.newscientist.com&size=5"
17
articles indexed
14
in the last 30 days
2
median per day
1
languages
17747 min
median crawl lag
07.08 → 28.08
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 6 days. The busiest hour is 10:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-08-07: 2 articles2026-08-10: 1 articles2026-08-12: 4 articles2026-08-13: 1 articles2026-08-20: 2 articles2026-08-28: 4 articles08-0708-1008-1208-1308-2008-28
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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.newscientist.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 17 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 00001: 00102: 00203: 00304: 00405: 00506: 00607: 10708: 10809: 10910: 51011: 11112: 11213: 11314: 11415: 01516: 11617: 01718: 11819: 01920: 02021: 02122: 02223: 023
Mon: 1MonTue: 0TueWed: 4WedThu: 3ThuFri: 6FriSat: 0SatSun: 0Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish1482.4%

Latest articles

The 14 most recent Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

NASA’s huge Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch
2026-08-28 12:00 UTC · astronomy · Leah Crane
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launches on 30 August, will observe space with the same detail as the Hubble Space Telescope, but over a much larger area
Fastest star ever spotted at the centre of our galaxy
2026-08-28 10:48 UTC · black holes · Leah Crane
A newfound star called S301 is both the fastest ever seen and the closest to a supermassive black hole –and it could make bafflingly difficult tests of gravity possible a
Where and when to see 2027’s ‘solar eclipse of the century’
2026-08-28 10:00 UTC · our solar system · Leah Crane
The total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027 is due to be the longest one until the year 2114, and researchers, eclipse chasers and tourists alike are on the edge of their se
Read an extract from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time
2026-08-28 08:00 UTC · space · Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The opening chapter to the New Scientist Book Club's read for September sees Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explore what we gain when we look at the universe from the margins
Strange gamma-ray signal could be most direct evidence of dark matter yet
2026-08-20 18:00 UTC · astrophysics · Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or some even more exotic phenomenon
NASA calls off rescue effort to save doomed telescope
2026-08-20 09:20 UTC · space · Jonathan O’Callaghan
The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed
The most breathtaking photos of the total solar eclipse
2026-08-13 10:16 UTC · astronomy · Matthew Sparkes
Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country
Live: Watch today’s total solar eclipse
2026-08-12 16:35 UTC · space · New Scientist
A total solar eclipse, Europe's first in 27 years, is set to be visible today. Watch it here
Mission to save NASA telescope back on track after loss of control
2026-08-12 14:00 UTC · astronomy · Jonathan O’Callaghan
Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft might still be able to save NASA’s ailing Swift telescope from doom, despite a significant mishap
Three black holes discovered in a young galaxy for the first time
2026-08-12 10:38 UTC · black holes · James Woodford
Three massive black holes have been found in a galaxy that existed during the earliest times of the universe
How to watch today’s spectacular solar eclipse
2026-08-12 10:27 UTC · our solar system · Leah Crane
A total solar eclipse is set to be visible across parts of Europe today, while a partial eclipse will sweep across about a quarter of the planet – here’s how to see it
Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions
2026-08-10 13:00 UTC · space · [email protected]
A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close to those that may be found just under the Martian
SpaceX crash site on moon revealed by South Korean orbiter
2026-08-07 11:04 UTC · our solar system · Matthew Sparkes
An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according to images from a Korea AeroSpace Administrati
4 ways to watch a solar eclipse without burning your eyes
2026-08-07 07:00 UTC · our solar system · Leah Crane
Even during a solar eclipse, it isn’t safe to look directly at the sun, but with a proper solar filter or a simple pinhole projector, you can still watch it disappear beh

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.newscientist.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.newscientist.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

0%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 17747 min at the median, 24478 minutes at the 90th percentile.

FAQ

Does Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 17 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Space – latest in science and technology | New Scientist publish per day?

2 on a median day, measured across 6 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.