Most distant sample return space probe

Japan space agency's Hayabusa-2 space craft visited an asteroid called Ryugu, spending more than a year photographing and taking samples from the asteroid. Subequently Hayabusa-2 made it's way back to Earth, with the official Hayabusa-2 Twitter account reporting that the capsule containing samples from Ryugu had been found at 19:47 GMT in near Woomera in South Australia. In it's six years Hayabusa-2 travelled a remarkable 5.2 billion km (3.2 billion miles). It was on July 11, 2019 that Hayabusa-2 landed on the asteroid to collect the debris samples at which point the probe was about 300 million km (186 miles) away from Earth - the furthest sample return mission to date.