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.

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.

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

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 astrophysicist who discovered water on another planet beyond our solar system was fatally shot outside his home this week. 67-year-old Carl Grillmair had worked with Caltech’s Infrared Processing ...

Homicide detectives have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 67-year-old Caltech astrophysicist on the front porch of his Llano home this week, officials have announced.

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 ...

While theatergoers bawled in their seats over the tragic ending of “Titanic,” Neil deGrasse Tyson fumed. As Rose lay on her plank in the freezing ocean, with Jack treading water next to her, she ...