- a few asteroids flying “close” and reported in press
- A few solar/planet events… eg holes in sun creating solar winds, northern lights being so far down south, weird planetary alignments
- nasa being able to defect the path of an asteroid in the last 6 months
op, you need to go back to school 🤦♀️
all these events have ALWAYS happened and will always happen. Asteroids don’t fly in form no where - they are orbital objects and are orbiting around our plant et, another planet in our solar system or the sun. Some of those orbits are so big they will only cross earths trajectory once in 10000 years , but others cross paths every year. There’s no weird planetary alignments -astronomy is governed by laws of physics , which whilst we are still always understanding more , like string theory, don’t mean that established planet orbits start changing randomly. It’s nonsense.
there aren’t “holes in the sun” 🤦♀️, the sun is a large gas ball with a solid core. It’s one whoppy big nuclear reactor. Sun spots/coronal holes are where surface temperature is reduced due to magnetic flux in the core. The aurora is caused by charged particles emitting from the sun due to disturbances in the magnetosphere , if the suns activity increases, solar winds increase, more changed particles emitting in solar flares, more aurora. Simple. The sun is constantly chainring temperature and levels off magnetic fields and surface temperature change. There will, and always have been, large fluctuations of periods of auroras activity. It ain’t something new. It’s not even new science, the cause of aurora has been known for over 120 years now.
as for NASA finding a way to alter the path of an asteroid. That’s called progress. NASA is a USA Gov funded organisation and has to justify its exi sitar e in terms of benefit for USA population. During 1960scitnwas the race to the moon, under guise of beating USSR who they were at a Cold War with, and to find out if it could be done, and if the moon was suitable for element extraction. In 1970/80s they did same thing with Mars - could we colonise it if disaster struck, and now they’re chasing after “saving the USA population destruction form a direct hit”. Behind all that pizazz is good science work that’s not very thrilling to your average USA citizen . The “saving the planet” work makes headlines, sells the role of NASA USA tax payers.
There’s no big conspiracy behind astronomical headlines you read. Just usual advancements in scientific understanding , some make headlines, the majority do not. Mainly becuase people like you only want to read the scary headline making stuff and do catastrophising thinking, rather than actually going away and reading up about wider context