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In our home Milky Way galaxy, there are over 200 billion stars just like our very own sun, and that’s just in one single galaxy. There are over one hundred billion galaxies in our known universe, and ...

The plainly-named SpaceEngine may be the closest most of us will ever come to intergalactic travel. Described as “free space simulation software,” SpaceEngine is a rather heady combination of actual ...

There are one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, and you can visit every one. The SpaceEngine simulator may sound like one of this year’s most anticipated games — it’s an unfathomably massive, ...

Real-life space exploration takes ages. Imagine spending ten years just to reach Pluto on a fast spacecraft like New Horizons or a staggering 81,000 years to visit the nearest exoplanet! But wait, ...

SpaceEngine has released Version 0.991, known as the Universe Generation Update, marking one of the most significant advances the simulation has seen in years. The update is now available to all users ...

SpaceEngine is a free space simulation program that allows you to travel through intergalactic space in three dimensions. Starting from Earth, you can journey out into the cosmos and visit all known ...

SpaceEngine crashes from the splash screen very early in the loading process if the system has an AMD GPU and Mesa is version 20.3.1. Downgrading to Mesa 20.2.6 allows the game to run normally.

Let’s say you’re sitting at home one night, flipping through the channels. You can’t find anything interesting on the TV, so you go for a stroll around the block just to kill some time. While walking ...