From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you ... The good news is that you won't need a telescope to see this spectacular celestial display ...

So you send a couple of pandas. Or telescopes! Or some other symbol that seems witty. This is another aspect of emoji—many are open-ended. You’d think that would make them less language-like ...

“We use the boat emoji a lot when we’re talking about ... NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a gamma-ray telescope in space, automatically detected the blast October 9 around 10:15 ...

Of course, clear skies will be essential to view the full “space emoji,” and observers can pick up a pair of binoculars or line up a backyard telescope to get a better glimpse, before the ...