Let S be a Noetherian scheme, and let X be a scheme over S, such that all relative symmetric powers of X over S exist. Assume that either S is of pure characteristic 0 or X is flat over S. Assume also that the structural morphism from X to S admits a section, and use it to construct the connected infinite symmetric power Sym ∞ (X/S) of the scheme X over S. This is a commutative monoid whose group completion Sym ∞ (X/S) + is an abelian group object in the category of set valued sheaves on the Nisnevich site over S, which is known to be isomorphic, as a Nisnevich sheaf, to the sheaf of relative 0-cycles in Rydh's sense. Being restricted on seminormal schemes over Q, it is also isomorphic to the sheaf of relative 0-cycles in the sense of Suslin-Voevodsky and Kollár. In the paper we construct a locally ringed Nisnevich-étale site of 0-cycles Sym ∞ (X/S) + Nis-ét , such that the category of étale neighbourhoods, at each point P on it, is cofiltered. This yields the sheaf of Kähler differentials Ω 1 Sym ∞ (X/S) + and its dual, the tangent sheaf T Sym ∞ (X/S) + on the space Sym ∞ (X/S) + . Applying the stalk functor, we obtain the stalk T Sym ∞ (X/S) + ,P of the tangent sheaf at P , whose tensor product with the residue field κ(P ) is our tangent space to the space of 0-cycles at P . Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Kähler differentials on spaces with atlases 4 3. Categorical monoids and group completions 15 4. Nisnevich spaces of 0-cycles over locally Noetherian schemes 27 5. Chow atlases on the Nisnevich spaces of 0-cycles 36 6. Étale neigbourhoods of a point on Sym ∞ (X/S) + 43 7. Rational curves on the locally ringed site of 0-cycles 53 8. Appendix: representability of 0-cycles 56 References 63