NASA Cassini Data Reveals Building Block for Life in Enceladus’ Ocean

Yasuhito Sekine, Kento Furuya and Shuya Tan has discovered phosphorus – an essential chemical element for life – locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus.

Introducing ELSI Science-Art Resident of FY2022 – Madoka Naito

ELSI selected Madoka Naito as the 'ELSI Science-Art Resident' for FY2022. Madoka Naito is an artist from Okinawa who explores humans' innate creativity and uniqueness as nature.

ELSI professor Kei Hirose elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society

The former director and current PI of ELSI, Professor Kei Hirose was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society

ELSI Professors receive the prestigious international research award

JUICE Mission livestream features ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine

Event Date：2022/4/13

ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2023 ‘Hayabusa2: Unlocking the Mysteries of Life’ lecture videos are available online

Videos of lectures by Associate Professor Elizabeth Tasker  (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)) and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)

ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the JSPS Prize

ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the 19th（FY2022）JSPS Prize

Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course as part of the International Graduate Program, Tokyo Institute of Technology (commencing from September 2023)

Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course

Event Date：26 January 2023

ELSI supervised, Tokyo Tech graduate students receive Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences Awards