Otherwise the author must address the reviewer's concerns and resubmit it. There are many peer-review astronomy journals. There are many others. But, anyone may submit an article to any journal. Another reason is topical.
Nobody can read all the articles written in astronomy today.
You could speed-read 24 hours a day every day, and still not keep up. So, you have to specialize, and learn one subject deeply, or learn a little of many subjects. Anyway, on to the assignment at hand. The Abstract Server Only a few years ago, there was no systematic catalog of astronomical literature on the internet. Of course, the database can be searched by all of these parameters.