In this talk I will report some results about lower order perturbations of the critical Lane-Emden system posed on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, with $N \geq3$, inspired by the classical results of Brézis and Nirenberg of 1993. We solve the problem of finding a positive solution for all dimensions $N \geq 4$. For the critical dimension $N=3$ we show a new phenomenon, not observed for scalar problems. Namely, there are parts on the critical hyperbola where solutions exist for all $1$-homogeneous or subcritical superlinear perturbations and parts where there are no solutions for some of those perturbations.