This news outlet ANI seems to have done no research at all into these claims before publishing the story. According to their statement they did not contact NASA

This news outlet ANI seems to have done no research at all into these claims before publishing the story. According to their statement they did not contact NASA until the 26th, a week after publishing the original story. Only then did every detail fall apart: - NASA never accepted a paper from the girl, and the screenshots shown were authored by IJSER which could have been Googled to show that they will accept anything - The certificates shown in the original story were obviously fake not just in appearance but the names and positions from the people at NASA do not exist, like "President & CEO" of NASA, which could have been Googled - NASA never gave any funding to the girl, so even the basic idea of the story that has a paid job with NASA is false, let alone the claim that they were paying for her to come to the US They only contacted NASA a week after publication, and now they insist that "a large part of her story is verified and authentic" and rests all the blame on the girl saying "she duped us." I can't help but feel that this national story would have never existed if the publication did their jobs, a story that will now follow the girl as long as people remember this.