Spaceflight and astronomy monitoring
Use Space.com endpoints to turn spaceflight and astronomy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Space is Future's space-science publication. Follow spaceflight, science, skywatching, equipment, and launch coverage through structured public feeds and article records for spaceflight and astronomy monitoring.
Extract astronomy, launches, skywatching, telescopes, and spaceflight explainers from Space with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "Space.com",
"endpoint": "space-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/space/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract astronomy, launches, skywatching, telescopes, and spaceflight explainers from Space with structured article, section, headline, news, and author data.
Use Space.com endpoints to turn spaceflight and astronomy monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Space.com endpoints to turn space.com section and headline tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Space.com endpoints to turn article and byline research for space-industry, education, and science-communication teams into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live Space.com endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented Space.com endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those Space.com endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 Space.com endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Space.com endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the Space.com endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/space/article
/space/author
/space/headlines
/space/news
/space/sections
Endpoint catalog
/space/articleReturns a Space.com article by canonical `url` in any of the site's URL shapes, including older `.html` reference pages: title, description, section, authors, publication and update times, image and body `paragraphs`. `/news/live/` pages return only their introductory paragraphs, and membership-gated content returns only its public preview.
MCP tool space_article
/space/authorReturns a Space.com author's profile, looked up by `slug` (for example `elizabeth-howell`) or canonical `url`; exactly one is required. The response has the name, `job_title`, biography, image and the first batch of recent articles on the author page. That page has no URL-based pagination, so no further articles are available.
MCP tool space_author
/space/headlinesReturns the latest Space.com stories for one category. `section` is required and takes a slug from `space-sections`, which joins nested category paths with hyphens, such as `astronomy`, `astronomy-solar-system-mars` or `stargazing-meteor-showers`. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image. Other values return a 400.
MCP tool space_headlines
/space/newsReturns the latest Space.com top stories (space, astronomy and skywatching news) from the site's latest-news hub. Takes no parameters. Each item has its title, URL, summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool space_news
/space/sectionsLists the Space.com categories that `space-headlines` accepts, from `astronomy`, `entertainment`, `science`, `space-exploration`, `stargazing` and `technology` down to their subcategories. Each entry has a `slug`, a display `name` and the category `url`. Slugs join the nested path with hyphens, so `astronomy-solar-system-mars` maps to `/astronomy/solar-system/mars`.
MCP tool space_sections
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How to scrape Space.com
Space.com, a Future publication, combines astronomy and spaceflight reporting with skywatching advice, telescope guidance, and explanations of scientific discoveries. A launch update, an observing calendar, and an equipment recommendation have different time horizons. Keep these editorial purposes separate: a skywatching item may remain useful for a specific night, while a spacecraft mission page can be revised as new information appears.
Call /space/sections to inspect the publisher's current taxonomy. Start with spaceflight, science, skywatching, or equipment sections according to the research question. These beats distinguish missions from consumer observing advice.
Use /space/headlines for a selected section and /space/news for the broader current stream. Collect current headlines around a launch or celestial event and retain publication time. A schedule mentioned in a story may change, so use the article as a dated report.
Pass a canonical public URL to /space/article and use /space/author for the named contributor when available. Read the full public article and its byline to capture mission names, observing location, and cited agencies. Keep source links before summarizing a scientific claim.
FAQ
The spaceflight feed can surface launch reporting and explainers. Store the mission name, operator, article timestamp, and URL, then check current launch information with the operator; an editorial article is a dated snapshot, not a live countdown.
Preserve the event date, viewing region, and observing conditions described by the source. A telescope guide or meteor-shower explainer should not be counted as a new astronomical discovery merely because it appears in a fresh feed.
Keep equipment advice in its own content type. A guide may remain useful across many skywatching events, while a mission report follows a changing launch or spacecraft timeline.