The Best 13 Space Engine Alternatives

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    Stellarium

    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Celestia

    Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • no mans sky

    No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.

    Commercial Windows

  • WinStars

    WinStars uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner.

    Freemium Windows Linux Wine

  • Orbiter

    Orbiter is a realistic 3D real-time space flight simulator program. Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter...

    Free Windows

  • Gaia Sky

    3D visualization software for ESA's (European Space Agency) Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of the Milky Way Galaxy.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra is an open-ended space exploration game which has attempted to model a Galaxy of over 110,000 real stars based on the 1997 Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The...

    Free Windows

  • Noctua Stellarium Mobile

    Stellarium Mobile is a fully-featured planetarium for your phone. It shows a realistic night sky map in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

    Commercial

  • Exoplanet Explorer 3D

    Exoplanet Explorer takes you on a journey beyond the limits of our Solar System. Based on the latest available data, you’ll explore virtual models of more than 700 known...

    Free Android

  • Solar Model

    SourceForge presents the Solar Model project. Solar Model is an open source application. SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open Source Software....

    Free Windows

  • Mitaka

    Mitaka is software for visualizing the known Universe with up-to-date observational data and theoretical models. Mitaka users can seamlessly navigate through space, from...

    Free Windows