Is it known whether a triangular number can be any power with exponent greater than $2$?

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Who can prove that a triangular number cannot be a cube, fourth power or fifth power?

I asked how it can be proven that a triangular number (a number of the form $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$) cannot be a cube, fourth power or fifth power and lulu posted very useful results which probably solve the problem completely.

But even more seems to be true :

CONJECTURE : A triangle number cannot be a power $k^s$ with $k\ge 2$ , $s\ge 3$

The conjecture is true for $n\le 10^9$ and I currently verify the range $[10^9,10^{10}]$ without having found a counter-example yet.

Is it known whether this conjecture is true ?