A man accused of killing acclaimed astrophysicist Carl Grillmair had faced trouble with the law, including gun charges and a suspected burglary, weeks before the deadly encounter in Antelope Valley.

Carl Grillmair, 67, a world-renowned researcher at Caltech’s IPAC Science and Data Center, was fatally shot on Feb. 16 at his home in Llano.

An accomplished CalTech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the ...

A 29-year-old Llano man is in custody, charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home.

A 29-year-old charged with gunning down a renowned Caltech genius had felony handgun charges dismissed by a Newsom-appointed ...

Carl Grillmair was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 ...

Carl Grillmair, who is revered in the astronomy field for discovering water on a distant planet, was shot and killed Monday morning at his home.

Carl Grillmair was a Caltech scientist focusing on dark matter, galactic structure, stellar populations, and exoplanets.

A California astrophysicist known for mapping the Milky Way's structure and spotting water on a distant world was shot to death on the porch of his desert home. Authorities say 67-year-old Carl ...

A Caltech research scientist known for groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy has been identified as the victim of a fatal ...