What the response contains
Fields worth checking
- Science & Nature
- Spaceflight News API results
- public source
Spaceflight News API
Science & Nature · Spaceflight News API results · public source
Current public response
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What each news item contains
The /articles route returns results, with count and next and previous links for pagination. An article can include id, title, url, image_url, news_site, summary, published_at, updated_at, authors, launches, and events. It is a discovery record: full reporting remains at the source publication’s url.
- Use id to distinguish items with similar titles.
- news_site identifies the publication that supplied the story.
- Open url before citing details that do not appear in summary.
Publication date is not the same as an update
published_at says when the source recorded publication; updated_at shows when the API record changed. Both dates use ISO 8601 and may not match. A recent headline also does not prove an event happened at that moment or that information stayed confirmed after later updates.
- Show the timezone present in an ISO 8601 value when comparing times.
- Do not sort by updated_at when a reader wants original publication order.
- Show source and date with every displayed summary.
Page through the list and retain the source
limit sets how many items this request shows, and next leads to the following page when more results exist. image_url is an image associated with an item, not a guarantee that it represents the full story or remains available permanently. Use the API to find space coverage and direct readers to the original article for reading, byline, and possible corrections.
- Follow next instead of assuming six items represent a whole day.
- Treat summary as a preview, not the complete news report.
- Check launches and events in the original article when they matter.