No Man’s Sky Cosmos update just handed players a whole new reason to actually live in space instead of treating it like a loading screen between planets. Hello Games dropped Comet Dust as the hot new resource, and the only way to grab it is by hopping out of your ship at Planetoid Debris or Ice Field POIs and mining those tiny orange-outgrowth comets yourself—blasting them with ship guns just nets regular salvage.[[1]](https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-get-and-use-comet-dust-in-no-mans-sky/)[[2]](https://www.gematsu.com/2026/09/no-mans-sky-cosmos-update-now-available)

The resource feeds straight into space station customization recipes and pairs with the new Corvette-class Tractor Beam plus Gravitino Coil loop for hauling physical salvage from hulks and asteroid belts. Ice fields also cough up Stellar Geodes that process into Condensed Stellar Ice, and the update is live across PC, consoles, and everything else right now as the big 10-year anniversary gift.[[3]](https://blog.playstation.com/2026/09/09/introducing-no-mans-sky-cosmos-update-live-on-ps5-today/)[[4]](https://www.eurogamer.net/no-mans-sky-10th-anniversary-cosmos-update-revealed)

Steam’s sitting at roughly 9K–41K concurrent players depending on the tracker you check, with the game still holding Very Positive reviews and a fresh 7.01 hotfix already patching tractor beam VFX and hulk meltdown messaging. Community chatter on X and Reddit is mostly “this is the best update” energy mixed with people figuring out the new spacewalking and salvage jank.[[5]](https://steambase.io/games/no-mans-sky/steam-charts)[[6]](https://steamstat.io/ru/app/275850)