Astrobiology

Editor-in-Chief: Sherry L. Cady, PhD

ISSN: 1531-1074 | Online ISSN: 1557-8070 | Published Monthly | Current Volume: 23

Impact Factor: 4.045* *2021 Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2022)

CiteScore™: 8.2

The most-cited peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the understanding of life's origin, evolution, and distribution in the universe, with a focus on new findings and discoveries from interplanetary exploration and laboratory research.

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Special Issues

2022 December

Special Issue: Interstellar Objects in Our Solar System

2022 June

Special Issue: Mars Sample Return: Planning for Returned Sample Science

2021 December

Special Issue: The Tanpopo Experiment

2021 October

Special Issue: Venus Cloud Layer Habitability

2021 January

Special Issue: Hot Springs 3

2020 November

Special Issue: AMADEE-18

2019 December

Special Issue: Hot Springs 1

2019 March

Special Issue: BASALT Research Program

2019 February

Special Issue: BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment)

2018 June

Special Issue: Exoplanet Biosignatures

2017 September

Special Issue: Enceladus

2017 July

Special Issue: ExoMars Rover Mission

2017 February

Special Issue: STARLIFE—Role of Galactic Cosmic Radiation in Astrobiological Model Systems

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