Astrophysics and Space Science

Astrophysics and Space Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering astronomy, astrophysics, and space science and astrophysical aspects of astrobiology. It was established in 1968 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. From 2016 to 2020, the editors-in-chief were both Prof. Elias Brinks and Prof. Jeremy Mould. Since 2020 the sole editor-in-chief is Prof. Elias Brinks. Other editors-in-chief in the past have been Zdeněk Kopal (Univ. of Manchester) (1968–1993) and Michael A. Dopita (Australian National University) (1994–2015).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: • Academic OneFile

• Academic Search

• Astrophysics Data System

• Chemical Abstracts Service

• CSA/ProQuest

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences

• Current Index to Statistics

• EBSCO databases

• EI/Compendex

• GeoRef

• INIS Atomindex

• Inspec

• ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus

• SIMBAD

• Zentralblatt Math According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.830.