What distinction could there be between space torpedoes and space missiles?

In the game "Stelaris" torpedoes and missiles are different categories of weapon. Presumably they wanted to include numerous kinds of weapons for the player to chose from. These weapons are all launched from spaceships in deep space. (They only ever travel through a vacuum; never through air or water.)

What explanation could provide a distinction between these two interchangeable concepts within the genre of space opera/sci-fi?

Please try to keep it relatively grounded within real world physics and engineering. In the future, science does not invent a magic McGuffin machine...

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