Naval authorities and scientific evidence confirm that ships and aircraft vanish no more frequently in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other heavily traversed ocean corridor, debunking decades of supernatural folklore.
Pluto was reclassified in 2006 from the solar system's ninth planet to a dwarf planet after the discovery of numerous icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt. To resolve taxonomic ambiguity, the International Astronomical Union defined a planet as a body orbiting the Sun that maintains hydrostatic equilibrium and clears its orbital neighborhood—a criterion Pluto does not meet.