Let
k
k
be a field, let
R
R
be a commutative ring, and assume the exponential characteristic of
k
k
is invertible in
R
R
. In this note, we prove that isomorphisms in Voevodsky’s triangulated category of motives
D
M
(
k
;
R
)
\mathcal {DM}(k;R)
are detected by motivic homology groups of base changes to all separable finitely generated field extensions of
k
k
. It then follows from previous conservativity results that these motivic homology groups detect isomorphisms between certain spaces in the pointed motivic homotopy category
H
(
k
)
∗
\mathcal {H}(k)_*
.