  The nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains one of the most important unresolved
questions of fundamental physics. Many models, including Weakly Interacting
Massive Particles (WIMPs), assume DM to be a particle and predict a weak
coupling with Standard Model matter. If DM particles can scatter off nuclei in
the vicinity of a massive object such as a star or a planet, they may lose
kinetic energy and become gravitationally trapped in the center of such
objects, including Earth. As DM accumulates in the center of the Earth,
self-annihilation of WIMPs into Standard Model particles can result in an
excess of neutrinos which are detectable at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory,
situated at the geographic South Pole. A search for excess neutrinos from these
annihilations has been performed using 8 years of IceCube data, and results
have been interpreted in the context of a number of WIMP annihilation channels
($\chi\chi\rightarrow\tau^+\tau^-$/$W^+W^-$/$b\bar{b}$) and masses ranging from
10 GeV to 10 TeV. We present the latest results from this analysis and compare
the outcome with previous analyses by IceCube and other experiments, showing
competitive results, which are even world-leading in some parts of the
parameter space.
