At the beating heart of the Standard Model of particle physics lies the Higgs boson. It is not just another elementary particle, rather it is special in many ways, starting with its spin-0 nature. It relates to masses of the gauge bosons, fermions, and even itself. The Higgs boson connects to the flavor structure of the Standard Model, and possibly to many open fundamental questions of particle physics and the Universe.

After an introduction to this topic, I will review recent results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments, based on data recorded at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I will continue with what we can expect from planned upgrades to the accelerator and experiments and I will conclude with an outlook to where this exciting journey may lead us, in the context of the ongoing hot phase of the discussions about a next flagship collider in Europe.