The planet is named after Dr. Edmunds, who was the first astronaut to land there.
Endmunds is a habitable planet and this was verified by Dr. Wolf Edmunds, which was sent by NASA, with other twelve astronauts (the Lazarus missions), to explore that planet.
He tried reporting that back to NASA, but he had troublings with communication.
Only few years later people living in Cooper Station will travel across the wormhole to Edmunds' planet and they will establish the first colony.
Some informations: the planet appears to be an immense barren desert, however, its atmosphere is breathable and the soil may be fertile for farming. The only known mechanism by which a planet could maintain sufficient oxygen levels for humans to breathe over a long period of time is biological, so it is likely somewhere on the planet there is life that generates oxygen.
The planet may possess some crude forms of plant and animal life, though none could be seen in her immediate area.