A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

Tonight's smiley face is not a unique type of event, but rather a type of planetary alignment called a conjunction. As the planets orbit the sun, from our perspective there are times when they ...

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look. But tonight, a rare astronomical display will take this to new levels - as an ...

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive ...

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all. However, if you've been ...

Early risers will be able to catch a celestial “smiley ... the Sun’s light begins to peek past the horizon.” Of course, clear skies will be essential to view the full “space emoji ...

Created by artist Harvey Ball in 1963, the iconic smiley face ... emoji like a pink flamingo, a pineapple, a couple of rainbows, a cactus, a drink with an umbrella, and the sun.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.