Early risers will be able to catch a celestial "smiley face" in the eastern predawn sky Friday morning, as Venus and Saturn align themselves with a skinny crescent moon to form a ...

Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.

Before sunrise on April 25, a slender waning crescent moon will appear left of Venus and Saturn to create the tilted happy face.

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere ... planets as the eyes and the moon as the mouth of the face.' Tonight's smiley face is not ...

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.