diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 09ff83d..1691896 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 		"chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
 		"chai-iterator": "^3.0.2",
 		"chai-string": "^1.5.0",
-        "coveralls": "^3.0.11",
+		"coveralls": "^3.0.11",
 		"form-data": "^3.0.0",
 		"mocha": "^7.1.1",
 		"nyc": "^15.0.1",
diff --git a/src/request.js b/src/request.js
index 08d46f7..19b79d3 100644
--- a/src/request.js
+++ b/src/request.js
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import Stream from 'stream';
 import Headers, {exportNodeCompatibleHeaders} from './headers';
 import Body, {clone, extractContentType, getTotalBytes} from './body';
 import {isAbortSignal} from './utils/is';
+import {getSearch} from './utils/get-search';
 
 const INTERNALS = Symbol('Request internals');
 
@@ -258,9 +259,11 @@ export function getNodeRequestOptions(request) {
 	// HTTP-network fetch step 4.2
 	// chunked encoding is handled by Node.js
 
-	// manually spread the URL object instead of spread syntax
+	const search = getSearch(parsedURL);
+
+	// Manually spread the URL object instead of spread syntax
 	const requestOptions = {
-		path: parsedURL.pathname + parsedURL.search,
+		path: parsedURL.pathname + search,
 		pathname: parsedURL.pathname,
 		hostname: parsedURL.hostname,
 		protocol: parsedURL.protocol,
diff --git a/src/utils/get-search.js b/src/utils/get-search.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3844d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/get-search.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+export function getSearch(parsedURL) {
+	if (parsedURL.search) {
+		return parsedURL.search;
+	}
+
+	const lastOffset = parsedURL.href.length - 1;
+	const hash = parsedURL.hash || (parsedURL.href[lastOffset] === '#' ? '#' : '');
+	return parsedURL.href[lastOffset - hash.length] === '?' ? '?' : '';
+}
diff --git a/test/main.js b/test/main.js
index 4f6134b..81e1273 100644
--- a/test/main.js
+++ b/test/main.js
@@ -1909,6 +1909,39 @@ describe('node-fetch', () => {
 		});
 	});
 
+	it('should keep `?` sign in URL when no params are given', () => {
+		const url = `${base}question?`;
+		const urlObject = new URL(url);
+		const request = new Request(urlObject);
+		return fetch(request).then(res => {
+			expect(res.url).to.equal(url);
+			expect(res.ok).to.be.true;
+			expect(res.status).to.equal(200);
+		});
+	});
+
+	it('if params are given, do not modify anything', () => {
+		const url = `${base}question?a=1`;
+		const urlObject = new URL(url);
+		const request = new Request(urlObject);
+		return fetch(request).then(res => {
+			expect(res.url).to.equal(url);
+			expect(res.ok).to.be.true;
+			expect(res.status).to.equal(200);
+		});
+	});
+
+	it('should preserve the hash (#) symbol', () => {
+		const url = `${base}question?#`;
+		const urlObject = new URL(url);
+		const request = new Request(urlObject);
+		return fetch(request).then(res => {
+			expect(res.url).to.equal(url);
+			expect(res.ok).to.be.true;
+			expect(res.status).to.equal(200);
+		});
+	});
+
 	it('should support reading blob as text', () => {
 		return new Response('hello')
 			.blob()
diff --git a/test/utils/server.js b/test/utils/server.js
index 14f5af4..0616d35 100644
--- a/test/utils/server.js
+++ b/test/utils/server.js
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ export default class TestServer {
 			res.end('world');
 		}
 
+		if (p.includes('question')) {
+			res.statusCode = 200;
+			res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
+			res.end('ok');
+		}
+
 		if (p === '/plain') {
 			res.statusCode = 200;
 			res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');