Every March math professor Jeff Bergen bursts from the relative obscurity to help college basketball aficionados understand their chances of picking a perfect March Madness bracket. Less than 1 in 9.2 ...

First, the good news: You have just as good of odds as everyone else when it comes to picking the perfect NCAA bracket. Now, the bad news: Those odds are astonishingly, amazingly, ridiculously low — 1 ...

If you're holding out hope that this is the year you're finally going to break through and get that perfect NCAA tournament bracket, you may need to wait a while. Like, a few billion years. The odds ...

You know that much-ballyhooed billion-dollar challenge offered by Quicken Loans and Warren Buffett? It's a brilliant marketing gimmick, of course, but does anyone stand a reasonable chance of getting ...

Astronomers have come up with a new estimate for the total number of black holes in the universe, and the number is mind-bogglingly large—40 quintillion. That's 4 followed by 19 zeros. The count, ...

In a move sure to prompt a million jokes about the space agency’s share of the federal budget, NASA has announced it is launching a mission to an asteroid made of $10 quintillion worth of metal.

Trying to craft the perfect March Madness bracket? It might be tougher than you think. The odds of accomplishing that are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 — 9.2 quintillion. Those odds are a bit better ...