Every single planet and moon in No Man's Sky possesses one monumental ancient Portal capable of opening a wormhole straight to any twelve-glyph coordinate address shared by another Traveller. Unlike Space Station teleporters that only connect places you have personally visited, Portals dial brand-new star systems across hundreds of thousands of light-years in an instant, and stepping through brings your active starship right along onto the destination side with zero portal-interference lockouts, letting you claim ships, visit bases, buy Multi-Tools, or warp freely afterward.
Locating a Portal via an Alien Monolith
Finding a planet's Portal starts by locating an Alien Monolith (distinct from smaller Ancient Plaques or Ruins) using either an Exocraft Signal Booster's free Alien Structure scan or Ancient Artifact Planetary Charts from a station Cartographer. Hop out of your cockpit first to create a clean Restore Point, then read the Monolith's historical vision and pick the answer matching local Gek, Korvax, or Vy'keen values; if you guess wrong, simply reload your Restore Point and pick another choice. Once the Monolith approves your answer with a beam of light, interact with that exact same Monolith a second time and offer one matching faction curio (a Gek Relic, Korvax Casing, or Vy'keen Dagger) to mark the planet's Portal permanently on your HUD.
Learning the sixteen runes and charging sockets
Before a Portal pedestal accepts an address, all sixteen glyph sockets around the ring must be charged to 100 percent using modest handfuls of basic elements from your inventory: Carbon or Condensed Carbon, Oxygen, Sodium, Cobalt, and Copper or Ferrite Dust. You can only type runes you have unlocked on that save. Travellers unlock all sixteen glyphs either naturally during The Purge finale of the Artemis Path, which awards one new glyph automatically on every Hyperdrive warp across sixteen jumps without hunting a single grave, or by asking translucent Traveller holograms on Space Stations where they came from for 100 Nanites to mark planetary Traveller Graves (once you learn just the first two runes, you can also dial community two-glyph grave worlds where player bases mark the remaining fourteen graves on one planet).
Galaxy matching and Portal base outposts
Remember one ironclad rule whenever dialing community screenshots: twelve-glyph Portal addresses are strictly local to a specific galaxy. Entering a Euclid Interceptor address while standing in Eissentam or Calypso sends you to those voxel coordinates inside Eissentam, not back to Euclid, while the very first glyph of the twelve-rune sequence selects which planet or moon index inside the target star system you step out onto. Drop a small Base Computer and teleporter two hundred units away from one Portal in every galaxy you visit so you never have to charge a Monolith or hunt a new gate twice.