Could we see into the past if the following technology existed (not time machine)

As I understand it, light moves at a specific speed and some of the bodies we see in the nights sky died millions or billions of years ago and the light is only just reaching us.

If we could propel a probe faster than the speed of light (imagine that we found a way) away from the earth, with an incredibly powerful telescope - would it be able to technically see light emitted from earth from the 'past' - e.g. could we see the continents of earth the way they were millions of years ago if this probe was quadrillions of miles away or would the light have distorted or be to scattered by then?